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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

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Lewis Carroll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1832
Born: January 27
Died: 1898
Died: January 14
Autobiographer
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Logician
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Philosopher
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Daresbury
Cheshire
Charles Dodgson
Lewis Caroll
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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Rev. C. L. Dodgson
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