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• You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Voice, Style

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• I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

  Jane Austen

  Doe, Records, May

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen Six Pack - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion”, p.1636, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Flower, Smell, Rose

  "The Naval Treaty" (1893)

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• It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers and whatever else the angels— and yes, all those annoying little cupids—wished to use for embellishment.

  Julia Quinn

  Flower, Heart, Angel

  Julia Quinn (2008). “The lost duke of Wyndham”

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• Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

  Gail Carriger

  Meaningful, Ivy, Profound

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• It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Flower, Giving, Goodness

  "The Naval Treaty" (1893)

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• ...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

  Henry James

  Laughter, Long, Should

  Henry James (1994). “Henry James: selected works”, Random House Value Publishing

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• At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

  George Washington

  Truth, Distance, Action

  "The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private".

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• It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master.

  David Hume

  Art, Nature, Men

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.131

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• Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Teacher, Foundation, Essentials

  Boyd K. Packer (1975). “Teach Ye Diligently”

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• The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated) or in the tapestry brocades and florals. The focus is on clean, strong silhouettes with bold embellishments. Accessories reflect the mood - belts with chain details, lace-up ghillie heels and muffs.

  Tory Burch

  Strong, Inspiration, Focus

  FaceBook post by Tory Burch from Feb 12, 2014

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• Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Heart, Sunset

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.11

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• Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

  George Bancroft

  Character, Joy, Stories

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.64

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• I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed.

  Christian Louboutin

  Design, Details, Gone

  "interview with shoe designer christian louboutin". Designboom magazine Intreview, www.designboom.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Body, Resurrection

  "By This Time He Stinketh" by Robert M. Price, infidels.org. 1997.

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• Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Plant, Form

  Philip Parker King, Sir Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin (1839). “Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...”, p.604

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• Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.

  Gerolamo Cardano

  Art, Suffering, Jurisprudence

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• Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Thinking, Islands, Life And Death

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