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• It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Roots, Cooking

  Lewis Carroll, Nickolas Cook (2011). “Alice in Zombieland”, p.144, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Through The Looking Glass, Left

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”, p.37, First Avenue Editions

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• My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.

  Lewis Carroll

  Moving, Air, Blood

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

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• Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Sky, Tea

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865)

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• Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Wonderland, Saws

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 6 (1865)

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• The further off from England the nearer is to France-
  Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dance, Dancing, France

  The Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Lewis Carroll, Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери, Шарль Перро (2016). “Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия”, p.85, Slavamax BVBA

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• Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Food, Soup

  1865 Song of the Mock Turtle. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.10.

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• Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.' And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever the wind blows.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Quilts, Nice

  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.82, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!

  Lewis Carroll

  Tired, Wish, Tears

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Annotated Alice in Wonderland with English Grammar Exercises: by Lewis Carroll (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.13, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?

  Lewis Carroll

  Ignorance, Circles, May

  The Dynamics of a Parti-cle (1865)

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• I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

  Lewis Carroll

  Happiness, Choices, Wish

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.147, Bibliolis Books

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• Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Might, March

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

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• Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.

  Lewis Carroll

  Knitting, Sheep, Land

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

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• One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

  Lewis Carroll

  Beast, Motive, Alliteration

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• Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

  Lewis Carroll

  Peace, Men, Echoes

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

  Lewis Carroll

  Water, Shining, Tails

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Race, Average

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• Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Zest, Giving

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

  Lewis Carroll

  Clouds, Sky, Bird

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass”, p.69, Oberon Books

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• O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Home, Oysters

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872).

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• "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Science, Knives

  Lewis Carroll (1929). “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces”

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• And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Turtles, Lessons, Nine

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

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• I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Trials, Letters

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.11, Springer

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• All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hands, Skills, Afternoon

  Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.3, PDFreeBooks.org

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