"Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up"
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"A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget."
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"There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!"
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"You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying."
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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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"It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!"
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"I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do."
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"Consider anything, only don’t cry!"
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"Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.' And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever the wind blows."
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"Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes."
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"And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors."
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"Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time."
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"I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going."
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"One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back."
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"You would have to be half-mad to dream me up."
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"Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!"
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"It's a large as life and twice as natural"
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"If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think."
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"I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide"
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"You couldn't have it if you DID want it."
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