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Alice Alice in Wonderland
Main character in the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a synonym for the English mathematician and author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898.
Associated eponyms:
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
A psychopathological syndrome of distorted space, time and body image.
Cheshire Cat syndrome
A medical eponym taken from Alice in Wonderland.
Biography:
Quotations by Lewis Carroll
”I’m very brave generally,” he went on in a low voice: ”only to-day I happen to have a headache.”
Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 4.
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.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 1.
Speak roughly to your litle boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 6.
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