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 EliotOur vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
George EliotI easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
George Eliot