"I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter."
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"Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder."
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"The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth."
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"Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people."
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"It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity"
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"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
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"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see."
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"One can't believe impossible things."
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"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round."
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"have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are."
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"You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness."
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"Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days."
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"Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing."
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"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"
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"She who saves a single soul, saves the universe."
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"I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
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"I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!"
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"She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!"
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"So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies."
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"You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from."
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