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“Correct” spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. – H.L. Mencken, The American Language, SupplementII: An Inquiry into the Developme

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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. – Sir Winston Churchill

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence. – StanisÅ‚aw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, translated from Polish by Jacek GaÅ‚Ä…zka,

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This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. – Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence wi

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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. – Isaac Babel

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