A small pale sculpted foot pokes out of a worn brown boot beside a curled leaf.

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Samuel Beckett

There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

That's humanity for you, says the speaker: people blame their footwear for problems that are really their own feet. It's a wry image of shifting blame onto the nearest object instead of admitting the fault is our own.

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