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On the Art of Writing, Lecture 12 "On Style," Cambridge University (28 Jan 1914) - Quiller-Couch, Arthur | WIST Quotations
Style, for example, is not -- can never be -- extraneous Ornament. You remember, may be, the Persian lover whom I quoted to you out of Newman: how to convey his passion he sought a professional letter-writer and purchased a vocabulary charged with ornament, wherewith to attract the fair one…