Lewis Carroll Quotes, Air Quotes, Confusion Quotes

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Air Quotes , Law Quotes

I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Light Quotes , Air Quotes

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Morning Quotes , Air Quotes

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Past Quotes , Air Quotes

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heart Quotes , Air Quotes

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Winter Quotes , Air Quotes

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Air Quotes , Charity Quotes

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , War Quotes , Air Quotes

Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Air Quotes , People Quotes

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Air Quotes , Civilization Quotes

My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Love Quotes , Air Quotes

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Country Quotes , Air Quotes

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Song Quotes , Air Quotes

The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Air Quotes

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Air Quotes

I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Moving Quotes , Air Quotes

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Air Quotes , Water Quotes