Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs."
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Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see."
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."
Lewis Carroll
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"And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?"
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word."
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"I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know."
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"You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying."
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"It's a large as life and twice as natural"
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"You couldn't have it if you DID want it."
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"I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet."
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"It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know."
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