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• They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

  Lewis Carroll

  Adjectives, Verbs, Through The Looking Glass

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sorry, Mean, Impossible

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• In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Dream, Lying

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.208, Bibliolis Books

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• Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 9.

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• For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Art, Fall, Writing

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.152, Lewis Carroll

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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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Thinking, Doubt

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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 not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

  Lewis Carroll

  Love, Misunderstood, World

  Lewis Carroll (1920). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.132

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• Off with their heads!

  Lewis Carroll

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: That CUPCAKE was off her head!”, p.66, Oldcastle Books

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• There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

  Lewis Carroll

  Feelings, One Day, Use

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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• Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

  Lewis Carroll

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

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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're all mad here.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Mad, People

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• Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

  Lewis Carroll

  Ideas, Knows, Seems

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Heart, World

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• You can't be that good; you work for me.

  Lewis Carroll

  Leadership

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• Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

  Lewis Carroll

  Travel, Wonderland, Way

  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Pig and Pepper

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• Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Firsts, Sentences, Verdict

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 12 (1865)

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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?

  Lewis Carroll

  Ideas, Age, Might

  Lewis Carroll (1979). “The Letters of Lewis Carroll: ca. 1837-1885”

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• No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Patience, Adventure, Adventurous Life

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• I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Adventure, Yesterday

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Growing Up, Way

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• I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

  Lewis Carroll

  Girl, Boys, Interest

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• The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

  Lewis Carroll

  Flamingos, Firsts, Found

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.55, Jeff Koo

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• Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

  1865 The Duchess. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.9,'The Mock Turtle's Story'.

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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 mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Different, Wonderland

  1871 Through the Looking-Glass, ch.6,'Humpty Dumpty'.

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