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There was once a young man of Oporta,
Who daily got shorter and shorter,
The reason he said
Was the hod on his head
Which was filled with the heaviest mortar.

— Lewis Carroll Useful and Instructive Poetry (1845)

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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!

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I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?

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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

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