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"The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals."
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Source: John Sargent. Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 1231927, 1927.
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