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• Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Children, Lying

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Sylvie and Bruno”, p.181, Lewis Carroll

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• There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost,
  The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three--
  That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
  Is a thing they call the Sea.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hate, Sea, Income

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.857, Delphi Classics

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• Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

  Lewis Carroll

  Home, Lakes, Sea

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

  Lewis Carroll

  Two, Blades, Left

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 1

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• PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

  Lewis Carroll

  Lying, Taken, Character

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1018, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Queens, Fun

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

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• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  Lewis Carroll

  Rude, Tea, Mind

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• Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

  Lewis Carroll

  Memories, Regret, Night

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.367, Race Point Pub

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• The vast unfathomable sea
  Is but a Notion-unto me.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Notion, Unfathomable

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Remember, Disappear

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• I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

  Lewis Carroll

  Trying, Flamingos, Programming

  Lewis Carroll (1869). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.133

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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, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Ought

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

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• This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

  Lewis Carroll

  Ocean, Doubt, Bells

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Rhyme? And Reason? (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.97, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• "Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Math, White

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.188, Race Point Pub

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• Why, what a temper you are in!

  Lewis Carroll

  Temper

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.217, Delphi Classics

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• One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

  Lewis Carroll

  White, Black, Faults

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

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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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• I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll (1955). “Symbolic Logic: Elementary”

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• You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.

  Lewis Carroll

  Thinking, Forget, Dear

  Lewis Carroll “Alice's Adventures”, Lulu.com

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• If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!

  Lewis Carroll

  Friendly, Dozen, Letters

  Lewis Carroll (1908). “Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

  Lewis Carroll

  Photography, Art, Writing

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.967, Race Point Pub

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• So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

  Lewis Carroll

  Eye, Reality, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.84, Jeff Koo

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• Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

  Lewis Carroll

  Math, Mathematics, Gaiety

  Lewis Carroll (1960). “The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll”, p.223, Courier Corporation

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• Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no denial; come, we must have a trialfor really, this morning, I've nothing to dosuch a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the curwithout jury or judge would be wasting our breathI'll be judge, I'll be jurysaid cunning old furyI'll try the whole cause and condemn youto death

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Law, Judging

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