Solved cryptogram
Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 9.
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"I'm sure I didn't mean - " Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
"That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands."
"I don't deny things with my hands," Alice objected.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultymedium
- Length67 letters, 19 unique
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