Lewis Carroll Quotes

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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

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There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

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He had bought a large map representing the sea Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand.

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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

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Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful soup!

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And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl
Brimming over with quivering curds!

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You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

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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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Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

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"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

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Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

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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 it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.

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Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

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In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

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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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Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles with no answers." "If you knew Time as well as I do," said the Hatter, "you wouldn't talk about wasting it."

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Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you havn't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast..."

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"A knot!" said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. "Oh, do let me help undo it!"

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First accumulate a mass of Facts: and then construct a Theory.

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"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

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"My name is Alice.." "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am... With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."

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Like the goblin 'Puck,' it has led me "up and down, up and down," through many a wakeful night: but always, just as I thought I had it [the proof], some unforeseen fallacy was sure to trip me up, and the tricksy sprite would "leap out, laughing ho, ho, ho!"

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The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

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"Crawling at your feet," said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), "you may observe a Bread-and-butter-fly. Its wings are thin slices of bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar." "And what does it live on?" "Weak tea with cream in it."

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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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