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Style: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.— HOSEA BALLOU — MS. Sermons.

Style is the dress of thoughts.— EARL OF CHESTERFIELD — Letter to his

Son. On Education. Nov. 24, 1749. Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, -in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will.— FÉNÉLON

One step from the sublime to the ridiculous.