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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

Lewis Carroll

Summer, Dream, Children

Lewis Carroll (2000). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, p.118, Penguin

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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

Lewis Carroll

Believe, Speak English, Long

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: That CUPCAKE was off her head!”, p.23, Oldcastle Books

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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

Lewis Carroll

Running, Party, Meat

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.438, Race Point Pub

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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Lewis Carroll

Trying, Twenties, Twelve

Lewis Carroll (2009). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.9, Lulu.com

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There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

Lewis Carroll

Book, Alice In Wonderland Alice, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Lewis Carroll (1963). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.36, Collector's Library

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I am fond of children - except boys.

Lewis Carroll

Girl, Children, Boys

Letter to Kathleen Eschwege, 24 Oct. 1879

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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

Lewis Carroll

Eggs, Through The Looking Glass, Said

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

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Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

Lewis Carroll

Mean, Two, Through The Looking Glass

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

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I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll

Thinking, Silence, Wonderland

Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.115, Delphi Classics

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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Lewis Carroll

Peace, Nature, Sleep

Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.190, Lewis Carroll

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You may charge me with murder--or want of sense--
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!

Lewis Carroll

Honesty, May, Want

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

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Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

Lewis Carroll

Education, Ambition, Turtles

Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

Lewis Carroll

Queens, Work, Done

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'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

Lewis Carroll

Queens, Children, Honesty

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

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Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Lewis Carroll

Stupid, Goes On, Dull

Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.18, Branden Books

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Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

Lewis Carroll

Mean, Names, Laughing

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

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Now, here, you see, 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, Somewhere Else, Wonderland

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 2 (1872)

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I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.

Lewis Carroll

Children, Lovely, Wish

Lewis Carroll (1954). “The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]”

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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

Lewis Carroll

Son, Bird, Claws

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)

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A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

Lewis Carroll

Summer, Memories, Simple

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Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

Lewis Carroll

Boys, Littles, Sneezing

Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 6 (1865)

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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll

Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)

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Who sail on stormy seas;
And that's the way I get my bread --
A trifle, if you please.

Lewis Carroll

Sea, Way, Bread

Lewis Carroll “Through The Looking Glass : Om Illustrated Classics”, Om Books International

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"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

Lewis Carroll

Tea, Tone, Wonderland

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 7

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Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!

Lewis Carroll

Interesting, Conspiracy, All Things

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.233, Race Point Pub

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Died: January 14, 1898
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