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• You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

  Lewis Carroll

  Father, Thinking, Men

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 5 (1865)

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• "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Queens, Science

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass (Alice): Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.87, 谷月社

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• All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

  Lewis Carroll

  Sadness, Gay, Childhood

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.967, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Butterfly, Wings, Feet

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Through the Looking-Glass: and what Alice found there”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

  Lewis Carroll

  Important, Caterpillars, Said

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.48, Penguin

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• But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

  Lewis Carroll

  Two, People, Use

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.9, Jeff Koo

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• If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Thinking, Pigs

  Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle: The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers”, p.425, Modern Library

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• It's always tea-time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Tea, Tea Time

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “Alice in Wonderland-English Classics”, p.60, Star Publications

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• In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Lying, Wonderland

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

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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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• Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

  Lewis Carroll

  Opportunity, Silence, Golden

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

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Want, Through The Looking Glass, Ifs

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.44, Pan Macmillan

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Atoms, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

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

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• We're all mad here.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mad

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland / Alice Im Wunderland: Alice's Classic Adventures in a Bilingual Parallel Text / Die Klassischen Abenteuer Von Alice”, p.106, Sivinco

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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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• Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

  Lewis Carroll

  Pounds, Language, Thousand

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

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• I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide

  Lewis Carroll

  Simple, Balls, Gone

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• As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

  Lewis Carroll

  Opposites, Gentleman, Misunderstood

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1114, Wordsworth Editions

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• And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll

  Voice, Wonderland, Stories

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.169, Dynamite

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• Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Letters, Magnitude

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• You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Mad, Half

  "Fictional character: Mad Hatter". "Alice in Wonderland", www.imdb.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.

  Lewis Carroll

  School, College, Men

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• No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

  Lewis Carroll

  Common Sense, Common, Ghost

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.835, Delphi Classics

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• It's a large as life and twice as natural

  Lewis Carroll

  Through The Looking Glass, Natural

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 7 (1872).

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• I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Loss, Literature

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