Slang

Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist

"Correct English is the slang of prigs."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

"The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist

"Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so."

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