“Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything
that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral
of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.”

— 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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