Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Lewis Carroll died in 1898, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1871. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
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