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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

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Lewis Carroll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1832
Born: January 27
Died: 1898
Died: January 14
Autobiographer
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Logician
Mathematician
Novelist
Philosopher
Photographer
Poet
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Daresbury
Cheshire
Charles Dodgson
Lewis Caroll
Lewis Carroll Dodgson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Rev. C. L. Dodgson
Charles L. Dodgson
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Plenty
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