Lewis Carroll Quotes
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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
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Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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Off with their heads!
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
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First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe at all events when viva voce worse than useless.
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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.