Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole … - Lewis Carroll

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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

Lewis Carroll

Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?

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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.

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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!

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

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

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