Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
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Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?
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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
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Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!
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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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Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
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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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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
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Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.
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...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
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A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics – it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of 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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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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But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!
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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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Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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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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When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.