No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. - Lewis Carroll

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The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

Lewis Carroll

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

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May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

Distinguish, Dream, Insanity, Sleep, Sleeping

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Four, Rate, Six, Thirteen, Trying, Twenties

I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

Boys, Girl, Girls, Interest, Pretend

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

Complicated, Done, Immensely, Queens, Red, Work

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When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

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We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself. " Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself. "

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