Lewis Carroll Quotes, Mind Quotes, Would Be Quotes

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

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What I tell you three times is true.

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I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

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

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Off with their heads!

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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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There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

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Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

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"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

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A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

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“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.

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And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

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In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

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