Lewis Carroll Quotes
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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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'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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When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms Watts, of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
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Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
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I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.
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To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.
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It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
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The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
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I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
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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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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
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Do you suppose she's a wildflower?
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Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.
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Now that's a thing I WILL NOT STAND, And so I tell you flat.
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From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In its case it lay compactly, Folded into nearly nothing;But he opened out the hinges, Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges, Till it looked all squares and oblongs, Like a complicated figure In the Second Book of Euclid.
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All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.
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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.
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Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
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And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!