French Literary Quotes about "argot"

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Tout argot est métaphore, et toute métaphore est poésie.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Londres 1874-Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 1936 The Defendant, A Defence of Slang

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L'argot c'est le verbe devenu forçat.

Slang is the verb that has become a convict.

Victor Hugo Besançon 1802-Paris 1885 Les Misérables

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