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I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

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Lewis Carroll's Popular Quotes

Off with their heads!

- Lewis Carroll

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

- Lewis Carroll

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

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You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Lewis Carroll

If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.

- Lewis Carroll

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Lewis Carroll

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

- Lewis Carroll
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