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Quotation by Walt Whitman
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman (1819–1892), U.S. poet. "Slang in America," North American Review (Cedar Falls, Iowa, November 1885).
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