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

“Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife.”

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

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

“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.”

“A collection of Tenniel's American Civil War-era illustrations”

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