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"You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic."

— Lewis Carroll

January 1, 1970

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Though written in contemporary idiomatic English, this has been recently cited on the Internet on various "quotations" websites (and elsewhere) as having being written by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland [sic]. However, it does not appear within the text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. It was actually a line spoken by a character named Jefferson in the TV series Once Upon a Time in a 2012 episode entitled "Hat Trick," in which the literary character The Mad

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Though written in contemporary idiomatic English, this has been recently cited on the Internet on various "quotations" websites (and elsewhere) as having being written by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland [sic]. However, it does not appear within the text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. It was actually a line spoken by a character named Jefferson in the TV series Once Upon a Time in a 2012 episode entitled "Hat Trick," in which the literary character The Mad