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Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Quotes

1870–1937 England

Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1870–1937) was an English clergyman and headmaster. He wrote two books about his uncle, Lewis Carroll.

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He tried also to encourage civilised warfare among earthworms, by supplying them with small pieces of pipe, with which they might fight if so disposed.

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898)

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899)

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi — the least omission may distort the whole picture.

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.