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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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About Voltaire

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, satirist, and philosopher born François-Marie Arouet. He is known for his advocacy of civil liberties and for influential works such as Candide and his philosophical letters.

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