“Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -"
"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
"Or else it doesn't, you know.”

—  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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