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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll

Person, Different, Yesterday

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll

Life, Others, Worth

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Lewis Carroll

Help, Said, Here

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

Birthday, Days, Three

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

Before, Impossible, Sometimes

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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.'
Lewis Carroll

Time, Said, Talk

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Lewis Carroll

'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.'
Lewis Carroll

Mean, Said, Rather

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Lewis Carroll

Good, Advice, She

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Lewis Carroll

Sky, Wonder, Above

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carroll

End, Beginning, Stop

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll

Great, Puzzle, Ah

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

Intelligence, Poor, Memory

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll

Late, Proverb, Prefer

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

Truth, Down, Before

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll

Book, Thought, Pictures

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

Before, Why, Impossible

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
Lewis Carroll

Love, Makes, Oh

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll

Everything, Find, Moral

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
Lewis Carroll

Good, Fish, Goes

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

Strength, Human, Dance

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll

Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
Lewis Carroll

Reason, Lesson, Lessons

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

Sentence, Afterwards, Verdict

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: January 27, 1832

Died: January 14, 1898

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