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«I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.»
«Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find; Some flowery spot, sequestered, wild, romantic; That often must have seen a poet frantic.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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«Hide me from day's garish eye / While the bee with honied thigh / That at her flowery work doth sing.»
«I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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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.»
«What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?»
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