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1. "Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!" ~ Lewis Carroll
2. "Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?""Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again."No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?""I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter" ~ Lewis Carroll
3. "I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter." ~ Lewis Carroll
4. "Si no sabes hacia donde te dirijes, cualquier lugar te llevará" ~ Lewis Carroll
5. "Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers." ~ Lewis Carroll
6. "Why is a raven like a writing-desk? - Mad Hatter" ~ Lewis Carroll
7. "Mouse!" ~ Lewis Carroll
8. "I weep, for it reminds me soOf that old man I used to know--Whose look was mild, whose speech was slowWhose hair was whiter than the snow,......That summer evening long ago, A-sitting on a gate." ~ Lewis Carroll
9. "knee," ~ Lewis Carroll
10. "It's a large as life and twice as natural" ~ Lewis Carroll
11. "Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice hand been reduced at last to say, 'Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be the rest." ~ Lewis Carroll
12. "No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time." ~ Lewis Carroll
13. "beg" ~ Lewis Carroll
14. "right word) '--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke--fancy curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it" ~ Lewis Carroll
15. "favoured" ~ Lewis Carroll
16. "Tanrim! Bugün her sey ne tuhaf! Daha dün her sey kendi olagan halindeydi. Acaba ben gece mi degistim? Bir düsüneyim: Bu sabah kalktigimda ben ben miydim? Sanki biraz farkli gibiydim, ama ben ayni ben degilsem, o zaman yahu ben kimim? Iste asil bilmece bu!" ~ Lewis Carroll
17. "won't!' said Alice." ~ Lewis Carroll
18. "If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?" ~ Lewis Carroll
19. "I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me." ~ Lewis Carroll
20. "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." ~ Lewis Carroll
21. "Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse." ~ Lewis Carroll
22. "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!" ~ Lewis Carroll
23. "Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again" ~ Lewis Carroll
24. "It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.""I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered."Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully." ~ Lewis Carroll
25. "If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things." ~ Lewis Carroll
26. "And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?" ~ Lewis Carroll
27. "She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cart-wheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: "Where's the other ladder?—Why, I hadn't to bring but one. Bill's got the other—Bill! Fetch it here, lad!—Here, put 'em up at this corner—No, tie 'em together first—they don't reach half high enough yet—Oh! they'll do well enough. Don't be particular—Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope—Will the roof bear?—Mind that loose slate—Oh, it's coming down! Heads below!" (a loud crash)—"Now, who did that?—It was Bill, I fancy—Who's to go down the chimney?—Nay, I shan't! You do it!—That I wo'n't, then!—Bill's got to go down—Here, Bill! The master says you've got to go down the chimney!" ~ Lewis Carroll
28. "burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was" ~ Lewis Carroll
29. "But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?" ~ Lewis Carroll
30. "She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)." ~ Lewis Carroll
31. "Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." ~ Lewis Carroll
32. "Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?" ~ Lewis Carroll
33. "Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky." ~ Lewis Carroll
34. "No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise." ~ Lewis Carroll
35. "muttering" ~ Lewis Carroll
36. "things" ~ Lewis Carroll
37. "You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are." ~ Lewis Carroll
38. "The world is but a Thought," said he:"The vast unfathomable seaIs but a Notion—unto me." ~ Lewis Carroll
39. "They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!" ~ Lewis Carroll
40. "I entered my room, and undrew the window-curtains, just in time to see the sun burst in glory from his ocean-prison, and clothe the world in the light of a new day." ~ Lewis Carroll
41. "He thought he saw a RattlesnakeThat questioned him in Greek:He looked again, and found it wasThe Middle of Next Week.'The one thing I regret,' he said,'Is that it cannot speak!" ~ Lewis Carroll
42. "How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!" ~ Lewis Carroll
43. "The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to" ~ Lewis Carroll
44. "You might as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!''It is the same thing with you,' said the Hatter[...]." ~ Lewis Carroll
45. "A stad moral: Badz, kim sie zdajesz, lub, jesli wolisz prosciej: Nie mysl sobie, ze nie jestes kims innym niz mogloby sie wydawac innym ze bedac kim jestes lub moglabys byc nie bylabys kims innym niz bylabys gdybys wydawala im sie kims innym." ~ Lewis Carroll
46. "ladies & gentlemen," the Professor began, "the Other Professor is so kind as to recite a Poem. The title of it is 'The Pig-Tale.' He never recited it before!" (General cheering among the guests.) "He will never recite it again!" (Frantic excitement, & wild cheering all down the hall, the Professor himself mounting the table in hot haste, to lead the cheering, & waving his spectacles in one hand & a spoon in the other.)" ~ Lewis Carroll
47. "written" ~ Lewis Carroll
48. "Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?' 'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been invited yet.' 'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished." ~ Lewis Carroll
49. "down. Would the fall never come to an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre" ~ Lewis Carroll
50. "Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?" ~ Lewis Carroll
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