“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”

—  Lewis Carroll , book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

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