Lewis Carroll Quotes
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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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My father was a Brownie, Sir; My mother was a Fairy. The notion had occurred to her, The children would be happier, If they were taught to vary. The notion soon became a craze; And, when it once began, she Brought us all out in different ways - One was a Pixy, two were Fays, Another was a Banshee.
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Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.
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'I've caught a cold,' the Thing replies, 'Out there upon the landing.' I turned to look in some surprise, And there, before my very eyes, A little Ghost was standing!
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Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
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'You have no mind to be unkind,' Said echo in her ear: 'No mind to bring a living thing To suffering or fear. For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind, my dear.'
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In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
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If doubtful whether to end with 'yours faithfully', or 'yours truly', or 'your most truly', &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach 'yours affectionately'), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!
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Not as in rest she bowed, But large hot tears were coursing down her cheek. And her low-panted sobs broke awefully Upon the sleeping echoes of the night.
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I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!
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Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?
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So, to reward him for his run (As it was baking hot, And he was over twenty stone), The King proceeded, half in fun, To knight him on the spot.
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Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!
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The rabbits bow before thee, And cower in the straw; The chickens are submissive, And own thy will for law; Bullfinches and canary Thy bidding do obey; And e'en the tortoise in its shell Doth never say thee nay.
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She generally gave herself very good advice, though she very seldom followed it.
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It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.
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To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.
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Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
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Now that's a thing I WILL NOT STAND, And so I tell you flat.
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We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.
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God has given to Man an absolute right to take the lives of other animals, for any reasonable cause, such as the supply of food; but He has not given to Man the right to inflict pain, unless where necessary.
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'True love gives true love of the best: Then take,' I cried, 'my heart to thee!' The very heart from out my breast I plucked, I gave it willingly; Her very heart she gave to me - Then died the glory from the west.In the gray light I saw her face, And it was withered, old, and gray; The flowers were fading in their place, Were fading with the fading day.
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You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.