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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)
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“The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.”
Anthony Burgess quotes (English Novelist, Critic and Man of letter, 1917-1993)

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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work”
Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)
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“Slang is a poor man's poetry”
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“Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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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 quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)
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“And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.”
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“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 passé before it gets into print.”
Raymond Chandler quotes (American Writer, author of detective fiction,1888-1959)

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