Lewis Carroll Quotes

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• I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
• There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
• One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
• 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
• She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
• Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
• Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
• 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more…
• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
• Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
• Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
• Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
• Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
• 'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
• Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
• Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

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