“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”

—  Lewis Carroll , book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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