“ Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs… ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ Lolly was possessed by a fiendish, auntielike excitement when on the trail of a hot exclusive, and would sit at her telephone all night long if necessary, interpreting the denials of those she was interrogating as the great horned owl interprets the squeaking of distant mice. ”
- Paul O’Neil- Copy
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