Lewis Carroll Quotes
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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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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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
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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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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
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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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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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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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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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Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
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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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Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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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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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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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.
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He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.
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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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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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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!