“Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this.”

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The quote suggests that present happiness does not have to be reduced by hope for something better in the future. It encourages the speaker to enjoy current joy while still looking forward to a brighter time ahead.

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Originally said in English.

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About Lewis Carroll

English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. He is best known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both central works of Victorian literature. His writing is marked by wordplay, logic, and fantasy, and he is also remembered for the poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. Those works are often described as literary nonsense, and some of the odd logic in Alice reflects his published interests in mathematical logic.

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Books by Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1869

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Through the Looking-Glass

1872

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

1968

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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

1869

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A Tangled Tale

1881

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