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Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

Alice Meynell

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Alice Meynell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: September 22
Died: 1922
Died: November 27
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Barnes
England
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson
Shadow
Spring
Inconsiderable
Events
Cloud
Shadows
Autumn
Compared
Landscape
Clouds

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