Lewis Carroll Quote
It was all very well to say Drink me, but the wise little Alice was not going to do in a hurry. No, I'll look first, she said, and see whether it's marked '' or not; for she had read several nice little stories about children who got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut your finger deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
It was all very well to say Drink me, but the wise little Alice was not going to do in a hurry. No, I'll look first, she said, and see whether it's marked '' or not; for she had read several nice little stories about children who got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut your finger deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
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About Lewis Carroll
Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and pursued his clerical training at Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar, teacher and (necessarily for his academic fellowship at the time) Anglican deacon. Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this.
An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle (which he then called "Doublets"), which he published in his weekly column for Vanity Fair magazine between 1879 and 1881. In 1982 a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works.