"There are certain thingsas, a spider, a ghost,……" — Lewis Carroll
"There are certain thingsas, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three That I hate, but the thing thatI hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea."
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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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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you…
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for…
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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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