Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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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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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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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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When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
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Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
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She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
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O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.
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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 never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.
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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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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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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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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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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 don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
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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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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
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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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'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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All that matters is what we do for each other.
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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!