“The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.”

Instructions to Sir John Tenniel c.1864; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130

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

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