Lewis Carroll - Thought Quotes

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He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk
Descending from the bus:
He looked again, and found it was
A Hippopotamus:
'If this should stay to dine,' he said,
'There won't be much for us!'

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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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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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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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There is so much written Science that no living person has ever read: and there is so much thought-out Science that hasn't yet been written.

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He thought he saw an Elephant,
That practised on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
'At length I realise,' he said,
'The bitterness of Life!'

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He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimneypiece: He looked again, and found it was His sister's husband's niece.

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Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means—for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

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'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice; 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!'

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And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

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Then proudly smiled that old man
To see the eager lad
Rush madly for his pen and ink
And for his blotting-pad –
But, when he thought of publishing,
His face grew stern and sad.

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Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

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Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3.

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I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

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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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He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A penny postage stamp. "You'd best be getting home," he said, "The nights are very damp."

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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

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But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

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