“ I'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 passe before it gets into print. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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“ Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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“ The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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“ Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ By such innovations are languages enriched: when the words are adopted by the multitude and naturalized by custom. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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