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• For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

  Lewis Carroll

  Knowledge, Thinking, Way

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.15, Branden Books

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• May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Sleep, Insanity

  Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling (1994). “Lewis Carroll's Diaries: Containing Journal 4, January to December 1856”

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• He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

  Lewis Carroll

  Relationship, Dream, Courses

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.84, PDFreeBooks.org

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• "All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Tails, Gone

  1865 The disappearance of the Cheshire Cat. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.6,'Pig and Pepper'.

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• burning with curiosity

  Lewis Carroll

  Curiosity, Burning

  Lewis Carroll, Glenn Diddit (2009). “Glenn Diddit's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.79, Glenn Diddit

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• I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,
  After so much reciting:
  So, if you don't object, my dear,
  We'll try a glass of bitter beer -
  I think it looks inviting.

  Lewis Carroll

  Beer, Thinking, Glasses

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.623, Race Point Pub

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• You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

  Lewis Carroll

  Unhappy, Jokes, Ifs

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass JESUK147”, p.17, Classic Comic Store Ltd.

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• You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

  Lewis Carroll

  Suffering, Want, Hunger

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

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• Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Thinking, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Thinking, Courtesy

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 2

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

  Lewis Carroll

  Habit, Kitten, Made

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 12: Which Dreamed it?, 1871.

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• So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Names, Way

  Lewis Carroll (1875). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.50

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• I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

  Lewis Carroll

  Extraordinary Things, Extraordinary, Seems

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• Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!

  Lewis Carroll

  Party, Tea, Tea Party

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• She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!

  Lewis Carroll

  Mind, Denial, Want

  "Through the Looking-Glass: The Sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

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• If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Kings, Trying, World

  Lewis Carroll (1993). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass”, p.120, Wordsworth Editions

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• Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

  Lewis Carroll

  Horse, Kings, Wall

  Lewis Carroll (1998). “Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There”, p.22, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

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• You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

  Lewis Carroll

  Through The Looking Glass, Cry, Bits

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

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• Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

  Lewis Carroll

  Adventure, Wonderland, Care

  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Pig and Pepper

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• Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
  Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
  Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
  Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
  Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
  Beautiful, beautiful soup!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Soup, Evening

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

  Lewis Carroll

  Mouths, Might, Ends

  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.118, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

  Lewis Carroll

  Clever, Needs, Stories

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• I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

  Lewis Carroll

  Wish, Tears, Trying

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.13, Jeff Koo

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• I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.

  Lewis Carroll

  Girl, Boys, Covered Up

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.235, Springer

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• Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. [laughs maniacally; starts to disappear] Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Thinking, White

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