| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 10608 |
| QUOTATION: | “Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail,
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my
tail. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898), British poet. Add subject: danger? Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. . ;
pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Oxford Book of Children’s Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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