Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
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Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?
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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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If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
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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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If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
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When she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural.
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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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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
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Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
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Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul.
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When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.
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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
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Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?
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And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.
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Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?
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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
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Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.
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Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.
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...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.