Lewis Carroll's name was spelled Lewis Carrol in some fortunes
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@ -3624,7 +3624,7 @@ Es brilig war. Die schlichte Toven
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Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
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Und aller-m"umsige Burggoven
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Dir mohmen R"ath ausgraben.
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-- Lewis Carrol, "Through the Looking Glass"
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
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-- Woody Allen
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@ -5473,7 +5473,7 @@ How cheerfully he seems to grin,
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How neatly spreads his claws,
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And welcomes little fishes in,
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With gently smiling jaws!
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-- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"
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How doth the VAX's C compiler
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Improve its object code.
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@ -5828,7 +5828,7 @@ less."
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so many different things."
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"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--
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that's all."
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-- Lewis Carrol, "Through the Looking Glass"
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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"I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd
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eat it, and I just hate it."
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@ -6080,7 +6080,7 @@ more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it
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might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not
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otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
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otherwise.'"
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-- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"
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I realize that the MX missile is none of our concern. I realize that
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the whole point of living in a democracy is that we pay professional
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@ -6140,7 +6140,7 @@ I tried to turn the handle, But ...
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"Is that all?" asked Alice.
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"That is all." said Humpty Dumpty. "Goodbye."
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-- Lewis Carrol, "Through the Looking Glass"
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck."
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-- Graffito in Los Angeles
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@ -7092,7 +7092,7 @@ Il brilgue: les t^oves libricilleux
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Se gyrent et frillant dans le guave,
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Enm^im'es sont les gougebosquex,
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Et le m^omerade horgrave.
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-- Lewis Carrol, "Through the Looking Glass"
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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Iles's Law:
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There is always an easier way to do it. When looking directly
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@ -11745,7 +11745,7 @@ For he can thoroughly enjoy
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The pepper when he pleases!
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Wow! wow! wow!
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-- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
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-- Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"
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Speak roughly to your little VAX,
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And boot it when it crashes;
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@ -15753,7 +15753,7 @@ year.
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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
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"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat
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-- Lewis Carrol
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-- Lewis Carroll
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"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish
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and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer
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@ -15859,7 +15859,7 @@ And yet you incessantly stand on your head --
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"I feared it might injure the brain;
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But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
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Why, I do it again and again."
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-- Lewis Carrol
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-- Lewis Carroll
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"You are old," said the youth, "and I'm told by my peers
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That your lectures bore people to death.
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@ -15880,7 +15880,7 @@ Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak --
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And argued each case with my wife;
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And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw,
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Has lasted the rest of my life."
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-- Lewis Carrol
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-- Lewis Carroll
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"You are old," said the youth, "and your programs don't run,
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And there isn't one language you like;
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@ -15901,7 +15901,7 @@ Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door --
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"I kept all my limbs very supple
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By the use of this ointment -- one shilling the box --
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Allow me to sell you a couple?"
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-- Lewis Carrol
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-- Lewis Carroll
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"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
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And make errors few people could bear;
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@ -15922,7 +15922,7 @@ Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose --
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Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs!
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Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
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Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
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-- Lewis Carrol
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-- Lewis Carroll
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
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"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
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-- Lewis Carrol
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-- Lewis Carroll
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Wouldn't this be a great world if being insecure and desperate were
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a turn-on?
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