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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
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Lewis Carroll |
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You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret all the best people are.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. 'Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Well that's it: if you don't think, you shouldn't talk!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
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Lewis Carroll |
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How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
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Lewis Carroll |
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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!
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Lewis Carroll |
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alys gft: "twy srzmyn m, gh yh mdt Twlny b sr`t bdwy, myrs~ bh yh jy dygh." mlkh qrmz gft: "chh srzmyn kwchyky! ynj byd b tmm sr`t bdwy t btwny hmwnj kh hsty bmwny."
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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inspiration
thoughtful
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Lewis Carroll |
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4ea0005
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They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!
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Lewis Carroll |
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She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
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multiple-personality
wonderland
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Lewis Carroll |
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Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
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Lewis Carroll |
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How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!
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Lewis Carroll |
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alys gft: "mn nmytwnm ynw bwr khnm." mlkhh gft: "yh br dygh tlsh khn. yh nfs `myq bkhsh w chshmtw bbnd. Hl s`y khn bwr khny." alys khndyd: "s`y khrdn fydh y ndrh. adm nmytwnh chyzy Gyrmmkhn rw bwr khnh." mlkhh gft:"khb bh khTr ynh khh khwb tmryn nkhrdy. mn wqty hmsn tw bwdm, hr rwz nym s`t tmryn mykhrdm. b`Dy wqt mytwnstm qbl z SbHnh shysh t chyz Gyrmmkhnw bwr khnm."
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Lewis Carroll |
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17d5d2f
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Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?
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life
philosophical
question
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Lewis Carroll |
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I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Twopence a week, and jam every other day." Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me - and I don't care for jam." "It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any today, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never today." "It must come sometimes to 'jam today..
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humour
jam
nonesense
payment
trick
trickery
wonderland
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Lewis Carroll |
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I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see.
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Lewis Carroll |
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It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief." "I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered. "Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully."
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The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" "Come, we shall have some fun now!", thought Alice. "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles - I believe I can guess that," she added aloud. "Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare. "Exactly so," said Alice. "Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastil..
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I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!
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Lewis Carroll |
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burning with curiosity
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Lewis Carroll |
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Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.
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bunny
fiction
white-queen
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Lewis Carroll |
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She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;
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motivation
relatable
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Lewis Carroll |
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2aa730d
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And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date!
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madness
time
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Lewis Carroll |
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How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
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Lewis Carroll |
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You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199"
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Lewis Carroll |
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Alice: How long is forever?
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lewis-carroll
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Lewis Carroll |
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I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it."
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Lewis Carroll |
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You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!
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alice-in-wonderland
impatience
oyster
patience
wonderland
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Lewis Carroll |
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If I had but the time and you had but the brain
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irony-of-life
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Lewis Carroll |
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And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said."
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Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believe..
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children-s-literature
death
dying
god
grief
hares
rabbits
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That would never do, I'm sure,' said Alice: `the governess would never think of excusing me lessons for that. If she couldn't remember my name, she'd call me "Miss!" as the servants do.' Well. if she said "Miss," and didn't say anything more,' the Gnat remarked, `of course you'd miss your lessons. That's a joke. I wish YOU had made it.' Why do you wish I had made it?' Alice asked. `It's a very bad one.' But the Gnat only sighed deeply, w..
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We CAN talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to
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lewis-carroll
tiger-lily
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Lewis Carroll |
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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.
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Lewis Carroll |
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What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? -Alice in Wonderland
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reading
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Lewis Carroll |
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All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone."
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grin
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Lewis Carroll |
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You've lost your muchness.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The world is but a Thought," said he: "The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion--unto me."
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Lewis Carroll |
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I always thought they were fabulous monsters!" said the Unicorn. "Is it alive?" "It can talk," said Haigha, solemnly. The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said, "Talk, child." Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: "Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!" "Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll beli..
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believe
lion-and-the-unicorn
monster
mythology
unicorn
wonderland
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Lewis Carroll |
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
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Lewis Carroll |
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She tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried. Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself rather sharply.' I advise you to leave off this minute!' She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears ..
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Lewis Carroll |
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If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!" "Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak."
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alive
disbelief
fake
tweedle-dum-and-tweedle-dee
waxworks
wonderland
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Lewis Carroll |
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For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards " fuming," you will say "fuming-furious;" if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards "furious," you will say "furious-fuming;" but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say "f..
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