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Lewis Carroll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1832
Born: January 27
Died: 1898
Died: January 14
Autobiographer
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Logician
Mathematician
Novelist
Philosopher
Photographer
Poet
Writer
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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First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.
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You know, he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off. pg. 199
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Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.
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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
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Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
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I am fond of children - except boys.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by
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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
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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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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
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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.
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?
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This was charming, no doubt but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.
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The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
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Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
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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!
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