Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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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 can't be that good; you work for me.
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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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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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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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If you don't know where you're going any road will do.
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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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You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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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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Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!
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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
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All that matters is what we do for each other.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!