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“If everybody minded their own business . . . the world would go round a deal faster than it does.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm...” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning . . . but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Life, what is it but a dream?” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“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.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“That's the reason they're called lessons . . . because they lessen from day to day.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“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.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Sentence first—verdict afterwards.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“I'm very brave generally . . . only to-day I happen to have a headache.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Well, I never heard it before . . . but it sounds uncommon nonsense.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir . . . because I'm not myself, you see.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife—what's the answer to that? . . . Bread-and-butter, of course.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“That'll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but then—always to have lessons to learn!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“The adventures first . . . explanations take such a dreadful time.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too!” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“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. ” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk'” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“What does it matter where my body happens to be? . . . My mind goes on working all the same. In fact, the more head downwards I am, the more I keep inventing new things.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens . . . that, whatever you say to them, they always purr.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes as you walk—and remember who you are!” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“I think I could, if I only know how to begin.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (35)
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