Tag: Lewis Carroll
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll
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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
Lewis Carroll
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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
Lewis Carroll
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Lewis Carroll
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Lewis Carroll
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That’s the reason they’re called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
Lewis Carroll
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Lewis Carroll
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carroll