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===Literary uses=== Examples from [[Baroque]], [[Mannerist]], and [[Victorian literature|Victorian]] provide a counterpoint to [[The Elements of Style|Strunk]]'s advocacy of concise writing: * "This was the most unkindest cut of all." β [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' (Act 3, Scene 2, 183) * "I will be brief: your noble son is mad:/Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,/What is't but to be nothing else but mad?" β ''[[Hamlet]]'' (Act 2, Scene 2) * "Let me tell you this, when social workers offer you, free, gratis and for nothing, something to hinder you from swooning, which with them is an obsession, it is useless to recoil ..." β [[Samuel Beckett]], ''[[Molloy (novel)|Molloy]]''
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