“When we speak plainly of death we stand equal to it.”
Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist
"Complete Hero" (2009)
“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
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