Creative Quotations from . . .
Lewis Carroll
(1832-1898) born on
Jan 27
English author. He was a noted lecturer in mathematics, but best known as the creator of "Alice in Wonderland," 1865 and "Through the Looking Glass," 1872.
         
   
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F
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

R
"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."
A
Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?', responded the Cheshire cat. 'I don't know.' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.
N
Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
K
"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only today I happen to have a headache."
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," ch. 9.
R: Alice and the White Queen, in "Through the Looking Glass," ch. 5, 1872.
A: "Alice in Wonderland."
N: Spoken by the Red Queen at the end of ch. 2, "The Garden of Live Flowers."
K: Tweedledum, in "Through the Looking-Glass," ch. 4, 1872.
 

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