"Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods,……" — Oliver Goldsmith

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• I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman
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• Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional… — Unknown Author
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• This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a… — Jean Baudrillard
• Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco
• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant… — Jack Vance
• One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature… — Merrill C. Tenney
• Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it… — Amy Waldman
• The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite… — Abdelkader El Djezairi

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