"If I had a world of my own,……" — Lewis Carroll
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
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310 Quotes by Lewis Carroll
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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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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