I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. (George Eliot)

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

George Eliot

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