Clara de Assis

“Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?” said Rosamond with mild gravity. “Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English; that is not slang.” “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