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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Discourse

Themistocles said that a man’s discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.
—Plutarch