“Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 358
“Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.”
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