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I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and...
Author:
George Eliot
Book:
Middlemarch
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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 )
[ Middlemarch ]
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