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5cca2d8 Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. carroll breakfast Lewis Carroll
55e1d08 If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. carroll Lewis Caroll
010b172 Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. jabberwock jabberwocky carroll lewis wonderland Lewis Carroll
4ae085b It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. carroll memory Lewis Carroll
f6ed1c1 "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't---till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" "But glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected. "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." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." dumpty humpty carroll lewis in wonderland Lewis Carroll
4306f03 "We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"--but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the silliest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met except "Uncle Remus." carroll twain shyness Mark Twain
0a8cdc5 The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass. mind science carroll looking-glass microscope alice-in-wonderland thrilling recognition ships lewis-carroll David Fairchild