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“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.”
 
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Voltaire
 
Name:   Voltaire
 
Nationality:   French
 
Date of Birth:   Nov 21, 1694
 
Date of Death:   May 30,  1778
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
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