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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Slang
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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Thomas Hardy

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Carl Sandburg

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun