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And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach."The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach."The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

Approximate author period: c. 1865 AD · industrial

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Lewis Carroll
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Approximate author period: c. 1865 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1832 to 1898; Wikidata Q38082, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38082 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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