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Alice Meynell was an English writer born on September 22, 1847, and died on November 27, 1922. Her works encompassed poetry, prose, and criticism, known for their delicate emotion and profound thought.

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“for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.”

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Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.”

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Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.”

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Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.”

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Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

About the Author

Born: September 22, 1847
Died: November 27, 1922
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 49

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