“As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.”

— Lewis Carroll

Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 422

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

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