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Through the Looking-Glass quotes

Lewis Carroll

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“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
“I'm very brave generally . . . only to-day I happen to have a headache.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“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
“He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too!” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“Life, what is it but a dream?” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“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
“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens . . . that, whatever you say to them, they always purr.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“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
“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
“if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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