Lewis Carroll Quotes, Son Quotes, Men Quotes

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

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So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

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"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

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There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know

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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

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You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

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It's always tea-time.

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Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

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One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

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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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Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

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Life, what is it but a dream?

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When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!

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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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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

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One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

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I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

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