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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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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
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If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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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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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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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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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
Lewis Carroll
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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!
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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Off with their heads!
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What I tell you three times is true.
Lewis Carroll
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
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I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot and it vexes me much. That English is what you speak!
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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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'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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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
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And how do you know that you're mad?
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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
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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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May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
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Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
Lewis Carroll