“Curiouser and curiouser.”
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Lewis Carroll is well known throughout the world as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Behind the famous pseudonym was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical lecturer at Oxford University with remarkably diverse talents. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/lewiscarroll/life.html
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“Curiouser and curiouser.”
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“Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are!”
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
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“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and lo...”
“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
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“What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.”
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“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
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“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”
“One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.”
“Mad Hatter: Am I going mad? Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
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“And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies!”
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“Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.' `If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Ha...”
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“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”
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“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
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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 all mad here.'”
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“'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'”
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“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things i...”
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“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
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“Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.”
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“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
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