Lewis Carroll

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Lived: 1832 – 1898
Era: 19th century
Place: Christ Church, Oxford, England

Pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Oxford mathematics lecturer and author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

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Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir, because I’m not myself, you see.
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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!
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The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.
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Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
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