Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
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The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.
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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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'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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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!
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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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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
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And how do you know that you're mad?
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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
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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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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
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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.
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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
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You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
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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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Off with their heads!