Quotations from Lewis Carroll's Other Works

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From Through the Looking Glass

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The little fishes of the sea,
They sent an answer back to me.

The little fishes' answer was
'We cannot do it, Sir, because—'

From Sylvie and Bruno

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek,
He looked again and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
'The one thing I regret,' he said,
'Is that it cannot speak!'