Lewis Carroll Short Quotes

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It's as large as life and twice as natural.

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They gave it me — for an unbirthday present.

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"Now! Now!" cried the Queen. "Faster! Faster!"

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It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul.

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

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

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Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

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"It was the best butter," the March Hare meekly replied.

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"Talking of axes," said the Duchess, "chop off her head!"

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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

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Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot
Into a left-hand shoe.

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And so it fell upon a day,
(That is, it never rose again)

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

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Now that's a thing I WILL NOT STAND,
And so I tell you flat.

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Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

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The Carpenter said nothing but "The butter's spread too thick!"

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His answer trickled through my head,
Like water through a sieve.

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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

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All in the waning light she stood,
The star of perfect womanhood.

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We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

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The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today.

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Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

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He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

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Rule forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

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At last the Dodo said, 'everybody has won, and all must have prizes.'

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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

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In an English dinner-party... I have never known small-talk run short!

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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

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The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.

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