“There are certain things - as, a spider, a ghost, The income…”

“There are certain things - as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.”

— Lewis Carroll

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Title: Wikiquote: Lewis Carroll
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A Sea Dirge, st.1

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Carroll, Lewis. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Lewis Carroll. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll

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