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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess

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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp

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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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