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Thomas Hardy quotesDialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Miguel de Cervantes quotesBy such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
Carl Sandburg quotesSlang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotesAll slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Raymond Chandler quotesI've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before it gets into print.