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Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife.
Urging Carroll to shorten Through the Looking-Glass

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How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking.

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It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since.

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The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.

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A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

John Tenniel

John Tenniel
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Born: February 28, 1820
Died: February 25, 1914 (aged 93)
Bio: Sir John Tenniel was an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of the 19th century.
Known for:
  1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
  2. The Nursery Alice (1890)
  3. The Lewis Carroll book
  4. Alice in Wonderland Coloring Book

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