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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Voltaire: "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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Addresses	Amount	Banished	Beauties
Compliment	Didactic	Flowery	Lighter
Nothing	Ought	Place	Pleading
Public	Sermon	Solid	Speeches
Style	Unsuitable	Work

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