Lewis Carroll quote: "What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands."

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost yo...
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I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times sinc...
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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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I am fond of children--except boys.
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And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that...
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The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax -...
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It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” th...
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Little Alice fell
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the hOle,
bumped her head
and br...
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Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to ...
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Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean imp...
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Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

...
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Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alic...
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on whe...
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseles...
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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had ...
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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 ...
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The time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax...
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How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been ch...
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No, no! said the Queen. Sentence first - verdict afterwards.
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There's the Kings Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesnt begin until ne...
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When ...
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The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said
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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
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Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he...
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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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...
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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 ...
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
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I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happen...
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Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their...
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
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It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a th...
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
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Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to ge...
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone mus...
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If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round...
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to...
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to...
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Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
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'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Ca...
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,...
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one fo...
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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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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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because every...
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If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there
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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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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
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have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
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Curiouser and curiouser!
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But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said t...
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Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop...
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should ...
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Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-...
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:
The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the ...
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I always thought they were fabulous monsters!" said the Unicorn. "Is it alive?"
"It can talk," ...
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I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it c...
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
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Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but...
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
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Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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Thanks for your nice little note, though I am sorry to hear you find Through the Looking Glass so un...
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You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / Th...
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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'...
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then
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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...
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We're all mad here.
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What I tell you three times is true.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: ...
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Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
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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 m...
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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it t...
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Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not t...
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'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!'
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be...
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"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The q...
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"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."
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And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Ten...
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Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot / Into a left-hand shoe.
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell
what ...
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Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves
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He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
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Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass ro...
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Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to g...
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? ''That depends a good deal on where yo...
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The time has come
The walrus said
To talk of many things:
Of shoes- and ships-
A...
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That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to da...
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on whe...
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Off with their heads!
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Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)
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I am fond of children - except boys
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Begin at the beginning, the king said gravely, and go till you come to the end; then stop.
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice
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I know what you're thinking about, but it isn't so, nohow. Contrarywise, if it was so, it might be, ...
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I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see
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"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different b...
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I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the bo...
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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...
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How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and ...
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
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Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.
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She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could n...
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"Give your evidence," said the king
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

The c...
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Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That dep...
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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...
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How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.
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For the snark was a boojum, you see.
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The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
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The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows...
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But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back aga...
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It's as large as life, and twice as natural!
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We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
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and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across...
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I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
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A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many l...
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Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as...
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When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose i...
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The further off from England, the nearer is to France - / Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but com...
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And thick and fast they came at last, / And more, and more, and more.
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Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.

Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty sa...
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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
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No admittance till the week after next.
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'But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you cant help that,' said the...
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When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a ...
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I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (a...
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The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!
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I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving...
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But answer came there none - / And this was scarcely odd because / They'd eaten every one.
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It [the Cheshire Cat] vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the...
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"Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then st...
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'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, ...
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Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / All mimsy were the borogove...
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Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and rem...
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But then,' thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way-...
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How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On eve...
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou A...
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Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?
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Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.
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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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Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round
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I said it very loud and clear; / I went and shouted in his ear.
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"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax ...
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His answer trickled through my head - Like water through a sieve
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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise
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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'r...
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Tırtıl'la Alice sessizlik içinde bir süre bakıştılar; neden sonra Tırtıl, nargilesinin marp...
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I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously....
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Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replie...
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But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back aga...
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,"I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat who was sitting in a tree "What road do I take?"

The cat ask...
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I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

~ Cheshire Cat
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If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, �...
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I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours
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I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd ...
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Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on: 'And how do you know that you're mad...
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Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.
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The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard no...
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Let’s consider your age to begin with — how old are you?’

‘I’m seven and a half...
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Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--
turn your toes out when you...
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Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded p...
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
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Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.
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Do you suppose she's a wildflower?
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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that ...
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Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite fo...
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name...
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I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but...
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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

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