Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Author
Lewis Carroll
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About Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary no…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Lewis Carroll'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
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.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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 spiri…
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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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.