Lewis Carroll Quotes

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No error at all! They were positively steeped in error!

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But I don't need a Sillygism, you know, to prove that mathematical axiom you mentioned.

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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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"Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

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I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

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Let U = the University, G = Greek, and P = Professor, then GP = Greek Professor.

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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

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In autumn, when the leaves are brown,
Take pen and ink, and write it down.

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Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

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The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done —

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"What's the use of their having names," the Gnat said, "if they won't answer to them?" "No use to them," said Alice; "but its useful to the people that name them, I suppose."

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You boil it in saw dust: you salt it in glue: You condense it with locust and tape: Still keeping one principle object in view — To preserve its symmetrical shape.

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In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

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The method employed I would gladly explain, While I have it so clear in my head, If I had but the time and you had but the brain — But much yet remains to be said.

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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

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Most other Sciences [but not mathematics] are in a state of constant flux - the precious truths of one generation being smiled at as paradoxes by the second generation, and contemptuously swept away as childish nonsense by the third.

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"O Oyster," said the Carpenter, "You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?" But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten everyone.

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No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

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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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PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink.

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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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"Very true," said the Duchess: "flamingos and mustard both bite. And the moral of that "Birds of a feather flock together." "Only mustard isn't a bird." Alice remarked. "Right as usual," said the Duchess: "what a clear way you have of putting things!"

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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 one moment I've seen what has hitherto been Enveloped in absolute mystery, And without extra charge I will give you at large A Lesson in Natural History.

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All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass.

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The Theory hardly rose to the dignity of a Working Hypothesis. Clearly more Facts were needed.

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My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

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It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

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