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Lewis Carroll quotes

1832–1898 · English writer and mathematician

Charles Dodgson, an Oxford maths lecturer, wrote the Alice books as Lewis Carroll. A popular "any road will get you there" quote is a paraphrase.

2 real · 1 not theirs

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2 quotes traced to Lewis Carroll's own work or a reliable witness.

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

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 5 (1871) — the White Queen

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It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch. 10 (1865)

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1 famous lines credited to Lewis Carroll that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

Misquoted

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

The real words: A later paraphrase. In Alice (ch. 6) the Cheshire Cat says that if you don't much care where you get to, "then it doesn't matter which way you go."