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• Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wisdom, Mathematical Logic, Ghouls

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Yesterday, Cooking

  Though the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Success, Art

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.13, Bibliolis Books

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• When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hurt, Long, Effort

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1478, Delphi Classics

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• She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

  Lewis Carroll

  Happiness, Sweet, Advice

  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'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Children, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green, John Tenniel (1998). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And, Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Mind, Able

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.28, Springer

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• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• ‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

  Lewis Carroll

  Lost, Said

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

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• There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

  Lewis Carroll

  Land, Mad, Needs

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

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• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Kings, Shoes

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Art, Fall, Writing

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.152, Lewis Carroll

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• Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

  Lewis Carroll

  Advice, Lost, Where You Are

  "Fictional character: Alice". "Alice in Wonderland", 1951.

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• When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

  Lewis Carroll

  Creativity, Men, Discovery

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

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• Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

  Lewis Carroll

  Want, Way, Ought

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• The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Men, Animal

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.10, Springer

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• Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sorry, Mean, Impossible

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• If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

  Lewis Carroll

  Would Be, World, Nonsense

  "Fictional character: Alice". "Alice in Wonderland", 1951.

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• Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 9.

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• There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

  Lewis Carroll

  Feelings, One Day, Use

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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• Curiouser and curiouser.

  Lewis Carroll

  Lit

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

  Lewis Carroll

  Soul, Littles, Holes

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• Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Monsters, Alive

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: plus Free Audiobook”, p.58, Wizio Publishing

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• It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Wish, Wonderland

  "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Book by Lewis Carroll, December 27, 1871.

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• Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Yes You Can, Mad

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