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As large as life, and twice as natural.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Appearance

The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Arithmetic

"Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."

Lewis Carroll Topic: Arithmetic

"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."

Lewis Carroll Topic: Courage

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

Lewis Carroll Topic: Eating

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

Lewis Carroll Topic: Education

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"

Lewis Carroll Topic: Fish

How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!

Lewis Carroll Topic: Fish

The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me. The little fishes' answer was "We cannot do it, Sir, because--"

Lewis Carroll Topic: Fish

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Fish

I am fond of children--except boys.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Girls

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Imagination

Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Joy

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

Lewis Carroll Topic: Morality

'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Nonsense

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Sense

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Statistics

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."

Lewis Carroll Topic: Talk

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".

Lewis Carroll Topic: Word

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