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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. - Mark T

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. – Mark Twain

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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. – Mark Twain

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There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. – Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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A double negative is a no-no. – Author unknown

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[A] man must be a d—d fool, who can’t spell a word more than one way. – Author unknown, 1855, anecdote from Jamestown Journal (Thanks, Garson O’To

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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. – A. Bronson Alcott, “Culture: IV.—Mother Tongue,” Tablets, 1868

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