Said echo in her ear:
"No mind to bring a living thing
To suffering or fear.
For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind,
my dear."" - Meaning and context.">
"To Janet Merriman", quoted in Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933) p. 81

"You have no mind to be unkind,"
Said echo in her ear:
"No mind to bring a living thing
To suffering or fear.
For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind,
my dear."

— Lewis Carroll

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets ""You have no mind to be unkind,"
Said echo in her ear:
"No mind to bring a living thing
To suffering or fear.
For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind,
my dear."" in the context of ""To Janet Merriman", quoted in Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933) p. 81" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898) was an English author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer. His father was Charles Dodgson (archdeacon), his great-grandfather was Charles Dodgson (bishop) and his nephew was Stuart Dodgson Collingwood.