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Slang Quotes

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

Middlemarch bk. 1, ch. 11 (1871 - 1872)

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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

"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.