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  1. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass and

    It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's RATHER hard to understand!' {You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.} 'Somehow it seemed to fill my head with ideas - only I don't know exactly what they are! However, SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING: that's clear, at any rate -
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  2. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind {as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid}, whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking
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  3. Lewis Carroll _ The Complete Works of Lewis

    It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.
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  4. Lewis Carroll _ Eight or Nine Wise Words about

    A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly. Of course you reply, "I do it to save time". A very good object, no doubt: but what right have you to do it at your friend's expense? Isn't his time as valuable as yours?
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  5. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    went on, taking first one side and then the other, and making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen. 'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me my gloves this moment!' Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had
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  6. Lewis Carroll _ Alice in Wonderland

    Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was
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  7. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' {when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural}; but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down
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  8. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: 'No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming. 'There's of room!' said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked.'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice angrily.'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited,' said the March Hare.
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  9. Lewis Carroll _ Alice in Wonderland: The

    No room! No room!" they cried out when they saw Alice coming. "There's plenty of room!" said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table. "Have some wine," the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. "I don't see any wine," she remarked. "There isn't any," said the March Hare. "Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it," said Alice angrily. "It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited,
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  10. Lewis Carroll _ The Complete Works of Lewis

    Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!
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  11. Lewis Carroll _ Eight or Nine Wise Words about

    If, in picking a quarrel, each party declined to go more than three-eighths of the way, and if, in making friends, each was ready to go five-eighths of the way-why, there would be more reconciliations than quarrels!
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  12. Lewis Carroll _ Alice in Wonderland: The

    And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
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