“But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust.”

— Lewis Carroll

To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train
Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 421

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

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