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Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are going. Alice: I don't know. Cat: Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
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purpose
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
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writing
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I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly; "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
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Lewis Carroll |
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Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul
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Lewis Carroll |
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You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness."
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Lewis Carroll |
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In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
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Lewis Carroll |
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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.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master -- that's all.
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Lewis Carroll |
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No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.
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Lewis Carroll |
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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know."
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?" The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?" "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?"
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The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam ." "It come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected. "No, it ca'n't," said the Queen. "It's jam every day: to-day isn't any day, you know"
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Lewis Carroll |
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
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verse
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Lewis Carroll |
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It's always tea-time.
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Lewis Carroll |
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IN THE END... We only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have,and the decisions we waited too long to make.
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Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where--' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '--so lon..
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humor
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And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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cheshire
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wonderland
cat
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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 loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorr..
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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Curiouser and curiouser!" Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."
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Lewis Carroll |
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That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day."
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Lewis Carroll |
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Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves
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Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.
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Lewis Carroll |
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You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...
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Lewis Carroll |
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It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--..."
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Lewis Carroll |
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I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !" --
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Lewis Carroll |
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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.
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How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!
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I love the stillness of the wood; I love the music of the rill: I love the couch in pensive mod Upon some silent hill. Scarce heard, beneath yon arching trees, The silver-crested ripples pass; and, like a mimic brook, the breeze Whispers among the grass. Here from the world I win release, Nor scorn of men, nor footstep rude, Break into mar the holy peace Of this great solitude. Here may the silent tears I weep Lull the vested spiri..
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Lewis Carroll |
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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
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Lewis Carroll |
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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- And why the sae is boiling hot- And whether pigs have wings.
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Lewis Carroll |
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When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jab..
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It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!"
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loneliness
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Lewis Carroll |
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What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts
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Lewis Carroll |
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Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Consider anything, only don't cry!
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Lewis Carroll |