“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
Lewis Carroll
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“When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday, culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was “Would God it were evening!” It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts’), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved…. There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was “bed-time,” which never could come too early!”
Lewis Carroll
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“She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch!”
Lewis Carroll
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“If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature … the booklets–the little thri”
Lewis Carroll
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“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
Lewis Carroll
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“My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important”
Lewis Carroll
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“There’s nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar–if only he might stand on his head to learn it!”
Lewis Carroll
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“Always speak the truth–think before you speak–and write it down afterwards.”
Lewis Carroll
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“I’m down here all alone, but as happy as a king–at least, as happy as some kings–at any rate, I should think I’m about as happyas King Charles the First when he was in prison.”
Lewis Carroll
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“To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter ofrelations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.”
Lewis Carroll
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“No, no! said the Queen. Sentence firstverdict afterwards.”
Lewis Carroll
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“I’m very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.”
Lewis Carroll
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“What I tell you three times is true.”
Lewis Carroll
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“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
Lewis Carroll
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“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday –but never jam today.”
Lewis Carroll
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“Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?”
Lewis Carroll
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“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Lewis Carroll
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