“He had great ideas upon the importance of a regular and almost daily visit to the dentist. He himself went to a dentist as he would have gone to a hairdresser's, and he insisted that all the little girls he knew should go too.”

—  Isa Bowman

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The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899)

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