Charles Spurgeon Quote: Reader's Choice

From Rey, who's a pretty good egg, and a Plymouth Brethren egg, to boot:

Plymouth Brethren delight to fish up
some hitherto undiscovered tadpole of interpretation,
and cry it round the town as a rare dainty;
let us be content with more ordinary and more wholesome fishery.

Discussion question: Whatever happened to hyperbole? Are we better off without it, or is something lost when we eschew it?