Lewis Carroll Quotes

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Lewis Carroll

Profession : Author

Birth : January 27, 1832

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Lewis Carroll

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

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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.

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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.'

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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

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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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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

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

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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.

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Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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