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Lewis Carroll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1832
Born: January 27
Died: 1898
Died: January 14
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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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No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
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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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Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
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Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
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Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?
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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
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Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
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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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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?
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...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
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Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.
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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!
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People who don't think shouldn't talk.
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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
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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.
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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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The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.
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If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
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