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"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"

Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Carroll

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Carroll

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

Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Carroll

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Carroll

'T was brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Carroll

He chortled in his joy.

Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Carroll

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings.

Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Carroll

As large as life and twice as natural.

Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll

"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."

Lewis Carroll

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.

Ramona C. Carroll

I am fond of children--except boys.

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Lewis Carroll

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all.".

Lewis Carroll

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