"I don't want to take up literature in……" — Lewis Carroll
"I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford."
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310 Quotes by Lewis Carroll
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're…
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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax…
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't,…
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it…
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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