13 passages by Lewis Carroll, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Lewis Carroll died in 1898, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
Pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), English writer and Oxford mathematician. Wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
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 conversations?”
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The time has come,’ the Walrus said,‘To talk of many things:Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—Of cabbages—and kings—And why the sea is boiling hot—And whether pigs have wings.
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!
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.
“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.”
“I mean, what is an un-birthday present?” “A present given when it isn’t your birthday, of course.”
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