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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. Voltaire Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Writer Quotes Category: French Writer Quotes Date of Birth: November 21, 1694 Date of Death: May 30, 1778 Nationality: French Amazon: Voltaire on Amazon	Related Authors: Andre Maurois Francois de La Rochefoucauld Joseph Joubert Nicolas de Chamfort Simone de Beauvoir Voltaire Madame de Stael Stendhal
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