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To Me It Seems That To Give Happiness Is A Far Nobler Goal That To Attain It: And That What We Exist For Is Much More A Matter Of Relations To Others Than A Matter Of Individual Progress: Much More A Matter Of Helping Others To Heaven Than Of Getting There Ourselves.

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To Me It Seems

Lewis Carroll

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To Me It Seems That To Give Happiness Is A Far Nobler Goal That To Attain It: And That What We Exist For Is Much More A Matter Of Relations To Others Than A Matter Of Individual Progress: Much More A Matter Of Helping Others To Heaven Than Of Getting There Ourselves.

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If You Do Not Know Where You Want To Go, It Doesn't Matter Which Path You Take.

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Have I Gone Mad? Im Afraid So, But Let Me Tell You Something, The Best People Usualy Are.

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

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She Tried To Fancy What The Flame Of A Candle Is Like After The Candle Is Blown Out, For She Could Not Remember Ever Having Seen Such A Thing.

Is Life Itself A Dream, I Wonder?

So Young A Child Ought To Know Which Way She's Going, Even If She Doesn't Know Her Own Name!

No Good Fish Goes Anywhere Without A Porpoise.

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Who Sail On Stormy Seas; And That's The Way I Get My Bread -- A Trifle, If You Please.

Beware The Jabberwock, My Son The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch! Beware The Jubjub Bird, And Shun The Frumious Bandersnatch!

Some Children Have The Most Disagreeable Way Of Getting Grown-up

Child Of The Pure Unclouded Brow And Dreaming Eyes Of Wonder! Though Time Be Fleet, And I And Thou Are Half A Life Asunder, Thy Loving Smile Will Surely Hail The Love-gift Of A Fairy-tale.

For First You Write A Sentence, And Then You Chop It Small; Then Mix The Bits And Sort Them Out Just As They Chance To Fall: The Order Of The Phrases Makes No Difference At All.

In Proceeding To The Dining-room, The Gentleman Gives One Arm To The Lady He Escorts--it Is Unusual To Offer Both.

I Should Like The Whole Race Of Nurses To Be Abolished: Children Should Be With Their Mother As Much As Possible, In My Opinion.

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!

No, No! The Adventures First, Explanations Take Such A Dreadful Time.

Adventurous Life

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.

I Said It In Hebrew—i Said It In Dutch— I Said It In German And Greek; But I Wholly Forgot (and It Vexes Me Much) That English Is What You Speak!

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, Has Thou Slain The Jabberwock? Come To My Arms, My Beamish Boy! O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! He Chortled In His Joy.

Would You Tell Me, Please, Which Way I Ought To Go From Here?" "that Depends A Good Deal On Where You Want To Get To." "i Don't Much Care Where –" "then It Doesn't Matter Which Way You Go.

What A Strange World We Live In...said Alice To The Queen Of Hearts

My View Of Life Is, That It's Next To Impossible To Convince Anybody Of Anything.

'the Time Has Come,' The Walrus Said, 'to Talk Of Many Things: Of Shoes And Ships - And Sealing Wax - Of Cabbages And Kings.'

It Is A Very Inconvenient Habit Of Kittens (alice Had Once Made The Remark) That Whatever You Say To Them, They Always Purr.

Alice: "how Long Is Forever?" White Rabbit: "sometimes, Just One Second."

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I Wish I Hadn't Cried So Much!” Said Alice, As She Swam About, Trying To Find Her Way Out. I Shall Be Punished For It Now, I Suppose, By Being Drowned In My Own Tears !

I Have Seen So Many Extraordinary Things, Nothing Seems Extraordinary Any More

Extraordinary Things

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It Often Runs In Families," She Remarked: "just As A Love For Pastry Does.

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I Think I Should Understand That Better, If I Had It Written Down: But I Can't Quite Follow It As You Say It.

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If You Drink Much From A Bottle Marked 'poison' It Is Certain To Disagree With You Sooner Or Later.

You Have To Run As Fast As You Can Just To Stay Where You Are. If You Want To Get Anywhere, You'll Have To Run Much Faster.

Soup Of The Evening, Beautiful Soup!

Life, What Is It But A Dream?

It Was For Bringing The Cook Tulip-roots Instead Of Onions.

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.

Who In The World Am I? Ah, That's The Great Puzzle.

Where One Is Hopelessly Undecided As To What To Say, There (as Confucius Would Have Said, If They Had Given Him The Opportunity) Silence Is Golden.

Fading, With The Night, The Memory Of A Dead Love, And The Withered Leaves Of A Blighted Hope, And The Sickly Repinings And Moody Regrets That Numb The Best Energies Of The Soul: And Rising, Broadening, Rolling Upward Like A Living Flood, The Manly Resolve, And The Dauntless Will, And The Heavenward Gaze Of Faith-the Substance Of Things Hoped For, The Evidence Of Things Not Seen!

If Doubtful Whether To End With "yours Faithfully," Or "yours Truly," Or "yours Most Truly," &c. (there Are At Least A Dozen Varieties, Before You Reach "yours Affectionately"), Refer To Your Correspondent's Last Letter, And Make Your Winding-up At Least As Friendly As His: In Fact, Even If A Shade More Friendly, It Will Do No Harm!

The Vast Unfathomable Sea Is But A Notion-unto Me.

Would You Be A Poet Before You've Been To School? Ah, Well! I Hardly Thought You So Absolute A Fool.

No Ghost Of Any Common Sense Begins A Conversation

What I Tell You Three Times Is True.

If Only I Could Manage, Without Annoyance To My Family, To Get Imprisoned For 10 Years, "without Hard Labour," And With The Use Of Books And Writing Materials, It Would Be Simply Delightful!

What Do You Suppose Is The Use Of A Child Without Any Meaning? Even A Joke Should Have Some Meaning-- And A Child's More Imporant Than A Joke, I Hope. You Couldn't Deny That, Even If You Tried With Both Hands.

I Wish I Could Manage To Be Glad! Only I Never Can Remember The Rule. You Must Be Very Happy, Living In This Wood, And Being Glad Whenever You Like!

Soup Of The Evening, Beautiful Soup! Soup Of The Evening, Beautiful Soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop Of The E--e--evening, Beautiful, Beautiful Soup!

I Don't Want To Take Up Literature In A Money-making Spirit, Or Be Very Anxious About Making Large Profits, But Selling It At A Loss Is Another Thing Altogether, And An Amusement I Cannot Well Afford.

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