"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."
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays. And-every-single-one-of-them-is-right!
-- Rudyard Kipling, "In the Neolithic Age"

I would never use a long word when a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who "ligate" arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The coordinating conjunctions are these: and so but or for yet nor