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.
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
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These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions and it is these people--amongst whom your life is passed--that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire--for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.
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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
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