The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.-- Voltaire
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Name: Voltaire Type: Writer Nationality: French Birth: November 21, 1694 Death: May 30, 1778 |