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If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.

Lewis Carroll

Mean, Fire, Hands

Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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With a sort of mental squint.

Lewis Carroll

Ability

Lewis Carroll (2014). “The Poetry Collections of Lewis Carroll: Early Verse + Puzzles from Wonderland + Prologues to Plays + Rhyme? And Reason? + College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel + Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses + Three Sunsets and Other Poems + The Hunting of the Snark”, p.149, e-artnow

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I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

Lewis Carroll

Mother, Children, Race

Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.78, Springer

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She's stark raving mad!

Lewis Carroll

Mad, Starks

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I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

Lewis Carroll

Thinking, Wonderland, Should

Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.54, PDFreeBooks.org

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'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

Lewis Carroll

Self, Identity, Helping

Lewis Carroll (1993). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass”, p.171, Wordsworth Editions

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I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

Lewis Carroll

Courage, Voice, Brave

Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

Lewis Carroll

House, Dining, Jelly

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

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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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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

Lewis Carroll

Tea, Wonderland, Said

Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.44

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Alice! A childish story take,
And with a gentle hand,
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Plucked in far-off land.

Lewis Carroll

Dream, Memories, Flower

Lewis Carroll (2012). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

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'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

Lewis Carroll

Book, Thinking, Hands

'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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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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Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

Lewis Carroll

Kings, Hands, Hay

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

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Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know.

Lewis Carroll

Eye, Knights, Tears

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.188, Penguin

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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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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

Lewis Carroll

Cat, Tree, Yards

Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland Collection”, Lulu.com

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Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

Lewis Carroll

Destiny, Should Have, Be Who You Are

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Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

Lewis Carroll

Horse, Fall, Sides

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

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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

Lewis Carroll

Poetry, Good Man, Through The Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.197, e-artnow

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Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

Lewis Carroll

Writing, Ravens, Ideas

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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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You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

Lewis Carroll

Cutting, Battle, Serious

"Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 4: Tweedledum And Tweedledee, 1871.

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How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Lewis Carroll

Wonderland, Minutes, One Minute

Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Lewis Carroll

Dream, Real, Thinking

"Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, ch. 4, 1871.

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Born: January 27, 1832
Died: January 14, 1898
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