[E]xaggeration establishes no good understanding between th… - Alice Meynell

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[E]xaggeration establishes no good understanding between the reader and the author. It is a solemn appeal to our credulity, and we are right to resent it. It is the violence of a weakling hand—the worst manner of violence.

Alice Meynell

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About Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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Alternative Names: Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell • Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson

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My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own, Into thy garden; thine be happy hours
Among my fairest thoughts, my tallest flowers, From root to crowning petal thine alone.

Round the blue sea I love the best The argent foam played, slender, fleet;
I saw—past Wordsworth and the rest— Her natural, Greek, and silver feet.

[I]t would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

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