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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head . . .
Source: Manners from Heaven, ch. 5 (1984).
-- Quentin Crisp, (Dec 25 1908-1999), English author; He is noted for his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, 1968.