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Areas searched: AuthorLewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-98), English writer, mathematician :And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For peaceful sleep and meditative snores,
To ceaseless din and mindless merriment
And waste of shoes and floors. Four Riddles, no. 1 (1869) "Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "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. "If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch. 6 (1865) "I'll be judge, I'll be jurry," said cunning old Fury; "I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch. 3 (1865) "I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only today I happen to have a headache." Tweedledum, in Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 4 (1872) Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that. Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 2 (1872) "One can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Alice and the White Queen, in Through the Looking Glass, ch. 5 (1872) "Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. "An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked my advice, I'd have said `Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now."
"I never ask advice about growing," Alice said indignantly.
"Too proud?" the other enquired. Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion.
"I mean," she said, "that one can't help growing older."
"ONE can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but TWO can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven." "The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!"
"You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it." Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 1 (1872) The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today. The White Queen, in Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 5 (1872) "The Time has come", the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax-
And cabbages-and kings-
And why the sea is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings" The Walrus And the Carpenter, Through the Looking-Glass When I come upon anything-- in Logic or in any other hard subject-- that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity! "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." Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 6 (1872) "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
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