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'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that - ' 'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen. 'Why, don't you see, child - ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation.

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Queens, Children, Thinking

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

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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

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Children, Voice, Bed

Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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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."

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Dog, Cat, Mad

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

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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

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Imagination, Identity, Wonderland

Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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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!

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Education, Children, Hate

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.309, Race Point Pub

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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

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Respect, Laughter, Exercise

Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.352, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. And how many birthdays have you?" One.

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Mean, Talking, Years

Lewis Carroll (2017). “Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books”, p.110, Lulu.com

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In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

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Giving, Gentleman, Rooms

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.971, Race Point Pub

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By which I get my wealth--
And very gladly will I drink
Your Honour's noble health.

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Noble, Wealth, Drink

Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

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Comfort, Wonderland, Lessons

Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

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Hate, Believe, Events

Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

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Children, Games, Two

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

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Kings, Real, Distance

Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.53, PDFreeBooks.org

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The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.

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Wine, Mad, Young

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In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

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Wonderland, World, Moments

Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.10, Branden Books

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"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

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Time, Queens, Eye

Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice In Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground”, p.144, Enhanced Media Publishing

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'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.

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Science, Names, Gnats

Lewis Carroll (2017). “Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books”, p.87, Lulu.com

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As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood.

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Men, Blood, Matter

Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

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Children, Thinking, Moral

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

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And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl
Brimming over with quivering curds!

Lewis Carroll

Heart, My Heart, Bowls

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.1198, e-artnow

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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

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School, Fool, Poet

Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.880, Delphi Classics

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Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

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Mean, Thinking, Voice

Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

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The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

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Queens, Would Be, May

1871 Through the Looking-Glass, ch.2,'The Garden of Live Flowers'.

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And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.

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Boys, Joy, Arms

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

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know

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Queens, Yesterday, Jam

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