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When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less. The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things. The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be masterthats all.   Carroll, Lewis

Source: LEWIS CARROLL , Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 6, p. 205 . First published in 1872. · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

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