“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”
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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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“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”
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“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
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“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
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“There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.”
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“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.”
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“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
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“No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.”
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“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
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“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.”
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“'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'”
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“That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.”
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“I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!”
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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, it ain't. That's logic.”
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“But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.”
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“Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?”
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
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“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
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“'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'”
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“His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.”
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“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
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