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  One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.200, Springer

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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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• How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

  Lewis Carroll

  Water, Shining, Tails

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• 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

  Running, Wish, Wonderland

  "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Book by Lewis Carroll, December 27, 1871.

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• The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

  Lewis Carroll

  Silence, Mouths, Lasts

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.26, Jeff Koo

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• 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

  Flames, Fancy, Remember

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Sky, Tea

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865)

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• Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Queens, Believe

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

  Lewis Carroll

  Moral, Duchess, Mustard

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.128, Delphi Classics

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• And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Bats, Answers

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.6

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• The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

  Lewis Carroll

  Simple, Turtles, Taught Us

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.57

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• And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Turtles, Lessons, Nine

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

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• I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

  Lewis Carroll

  Trying, Twenties, Twelve

  Lewis Carroll (2009). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Atoms, Don't Believe

  Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.73, PDFreeBooks.org

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• 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

  Knowledge, Thinking, Way

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.15, Branden Books

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• She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's 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

  Dog, Cat, Mad

  "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Book by Lewis Carroll (Chapter VI: Pig and Pepper), November 26, 1865.

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• Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Food, Soup

  1865 Song of the Mock Turtle. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.10.

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• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Kings, Shoes

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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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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• when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

  Lewis Carroll

  Natural, Ought

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.12, Jazzybee Verlag

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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!

  Lewis Carroll

  Boys, Littles, Sneezing

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 6 (1865)

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Two, Alice In Wonderland Book, Miles

  Lewis Carroll (2011). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Second Edition”, p.154, Broadview Press

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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?

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Reading, Tired

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 1 (1865)

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• Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

  Lewis Carroll

  Caterpillars, Said, Temper

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)

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