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Come back! the Caterpillar called after her. I've something important to say. This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1832
Born: January 27
Died: 1898
Died: January 14
Autobiographer
Deacon
Diarist
Logician
Mathematician
Novelist
Philosopher
Photographer
Poet
Writer
Daresbury
Cheshire
Charles Dodgson
Lewis Caroll
Lewis Carroll Dodgson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Rev. C. L. Dodgson
Charles L. Dodgson
Come
Sounded
Important
Temper
Something
Turned
Certainly
Called
Caterpillar
Came
Caterpillars
Keep
Promising
Back
Alice

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