Lewis Carroll  - Quotes

 Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat.

I don't much care where- said Alice.

Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.
 

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Carl Sandburg  - Quotes

 They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.. 

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Carl Sandburg  - Quotes

 Did you name your pigeons with names? 

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Carl Sandburg  - Quotes

 One summer afternoon I came home and found all the umbrellas sitting in the kitchen, with straw hats on, telling who they are.

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The umbrella that peels the potatoes with a pencil and makes a pink ink with the peelings stood up and said,
 

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Carl Sandburg  - Quotes

 Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice?

Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.
 

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Carl Sandburg  - Quotes

 Show me the telegrams they sent you, one every day for six days while they were walking six hundred miles on their pigeon toes. 

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