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Lewis Carroll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1832
Born: January 27
Died: 1898
Died: January 14
Autobiographer
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Logician
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Daresbury
Cheshire
Charles Dodgson
Lewis Caroll
Lewis Carroll Dodgson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Rev. C. L. Dodgson
Charles L. Dodgson
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Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.
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Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
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Come back! the Caterpillar called after her. I've something important to say. This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
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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.
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
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And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
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But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?
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I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end then stop.
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And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, The rest next time-- It is next time! The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland
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Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
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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.
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I don't think... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
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I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.
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It's always tea-time.
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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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