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They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

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
Adjectives
Verbs
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Particularly
Language
Anything
Proudest

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