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I Do Not Know If Alice In Wonderland Was An Original Story-i Was, At Least, No Conscious Imitator In Writing It-but I Do Know That, Since It Came Out, Something Like A Dozen Story-books Have Appeared, On Identically The Same Pattern. The Path I Timidly Explored Believing Myself To Be 'the First That Ever Burst Into That Silent Sea'-is Now A Beaten High-road: All The Way-side Flowers Have Long Ago Been Trampled Into The Dust: And It Would Be Courting Disaster For Me To Attempt That Style Again.

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Lewis Carroll

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I Do Not Know If Alice In Wonderland Was An Original Story-i Was, At Least, No Conscious Imitator In Writing It-but I Do Know That, Since It Came Out, Something Like A Dozen Story-books Have Appeared, On Identically The Same Pattern. The Path I Timidly Explored Believing Myself To Be 'the First That Ever Burst Into That Silent Sea'-is Now A Beaten High-road: All The Way-side Flowers Have Long Ago Been Trampled Into The Dust: And It Would Be Courting Disaster For Me To Attempt That Style Again.

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I Can't Go Back To Yesterday - Because I Was A Different Person Then.

Tis A Secret: None Knows How It Comes, How It Goes: But The Name Of The Secret Is Love!

The Rule Is, Jam Tomorrow And Jam Yesterday-but Never Jam Today It Must Come Sometime To Jam Today, Alice Objected No It Can't Said The Queen It's Jame Every Other Day. Today Isn't Any Other Day, You Know

Speak English!' Said The Eaglet. 'i Don't Know The Meaning Of Half Those Long Words, And I Don't Believe You Do Either!

No Good Fish Goes Anywhere Without A Porpoise.

Everything's Got A Moral, If Only You Can Find It.

I Have Often Seen A Cat Without A Grin - But A Grin Without A Cat - Remember The Cat Kept Appearing And Disappearing Slowly Bit By Bit.

Child Of The Pure, Unclouded Brow And Dreaming Eyes Of Wonder.

It's A Poor Sort Of Memory That Only Works Backwards.

'who's Been Repeating All That Hard Stuff To You?' 'i Read It In A Book,' Said Alice. 'but I Had Some Poetry Repeated To Me, Much Easier Than That, By - Tweedledee, I Think It Was.' 'as To Poetry, You Know,' Said Humpty Dumpty, Stretching Out One Of His Great Hands, 'i Can Repeat Poetry As Well As Other Folk, If It Comes To That - ' 'oh, It Needn't Come To That!' Alice Hastily Said, Hoping To Keep Him From Beginning.

Alice Was Beginning To Get Very Tired Of Sitting By Her Sister On The Bank, And Of Having Nothing To Do: Once Or Twice She Had Peeped Into The Book Her Sister Was Reading, But It Had No Pictures Or Conversations In It, “and What Is The Use Of A Book,” Thought Alice, “without Pictures Or Conversation?

When I Come Upon Anything-in Logic Or In Any Other Hard Subject-that Entirely Puzzles Me, I Find It A Capital Plan To Talk It Over, Aloud, Even When I Am All Alone. One Can Explain Things So Clearly To One's Self! And Then, You Know, One Is So Patient With One's Self: One Never Gets Irritated At One's Own Stupidity!

"she Can't Do Sums A Bit!" The Queens Said Together, With Great Emphasis. "can You Do Sums?" Alice Said, Turning Suddenly On The White Queen, For She Didn't Like Being Found Fault With So Much. The Queen Gasped And Shut Her Eyes. "i Can Do Addition, If You Give Me Time-but I Can Do Subtraction, Under Any Circumstances!"

It Takes All The Running You Can Do Just To Keep In The Same Place.

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.

Everything Is Funny, If You Can Laugh At It.

How Doth The Little Crocodile Improve His Shining Tail, And Pour The Waters Of The Nile On Every Golden Scale! How Cheerfully He Seems To Grin, How Neatly He Spreads His Claws, And Welcomes Little Fishes In, With Gently Smiling Jaws!

You May Charge Me With Murder--or Want Of Sense-- (we Are All Of Us Weak At Times): But The Slightest Approach To A False Pretence Was Never Among My Crimes!

Ill Try The Whole Cause, And Condemn You To Death.

Be Sure The Safest Rule Is That We Should Not Dare To Live In Any Scene In Which We Dare Not Die. But, Once Realise What The True Object Is In Life That It Is Not Pleasure, Not Knowledge, Not Even Fame Itself, 'that Last Infirmity Of Noble Minds' But That It Is The Development Of Character, The Rising To A Higher, Nobler, Purer Standard, The Building-up Of The Perfect Man And Then, So Long As We Feel That This Is Going On, And Will (we Trust) Go On For Evermore, Death Has For Us No Terror; It Is Not A Shadow, But A Light; Not An End, But A Beginning!

Speak Roughly To Your Little Boy And Beat Him When He Sneezes! He Only Does It To Annoy, Because He Knows It Teases!

You Know," He (tweedledee) Added Very Gravely, "it's One Of The Most Serious Things That Can Possibly Happen To One In A Battle--to Get One's Head Cut Off." Pg. 199

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