| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 10650 |
| QUOTATION: | “Seven years and six months!” Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. “An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you’d asked my advice, I’d have said ‘Leave off at seven’Mbut it’s too late now.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898), British author, mathematician, clergyman. Humpty Dumpty to Alice, Through the Looking-Glass, ch. VI, Macmillan (1872). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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