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  1. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!" And the Eaglet bend down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.
    book-quotespeechlanguageenglish

  2. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    And it certainly did seem a little provoking {'almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought} that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach."The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.
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  3. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -""Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" Alice asked."We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily: "really you are very dull!
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  4. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    ,"I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat
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  5. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!""Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.
    book-quotealivefakedisbelief

  6. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    I always thought they were fabulous monsters!" said the Unicorn. "Is it alive?""It can talk," said Haigha, solemnly.The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said, "Talk, child."Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: "Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!""Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?
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  7. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!
    book-quotepatiencewonderlandimpatience

  8. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Twopence a week, and jam every other day."Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me - and I don't care for jam.""It's very good jam," said the Queen."Well, I don't want any today, at any rate.""You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said."The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never today.""It must come sometimes to 'jam today'," Alice objected."No it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: today isn't any other day, you know.
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  9. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    She generally gave herself very good advice {though she very seldom followed it}, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
    book-quotewonderlandmultiple-personality

  10. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!"Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked."That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know.
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  11. Lewis Carroll

    I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't---till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'""But glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected."When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean---neither more nor less.""The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things.
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  12. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    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! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.
    book-quotetearsironydrowning
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