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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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It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. – Mark Twain

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Man was made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. – Mark Twain

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Practice safe text — use commas, and never miss a period. – Internet meme

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The great logical, or grammatical, framework of language, (for grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason,) he would possess, he knew not how… – Richard Chenevix Trench, “On the Study of Words,” lecture to the pupils of the D

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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Grammar is politics by other means. – Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 1991

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Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. – Gwendolyn Bennett

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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to deaths perfect punctuation mark is a smile. – Julie Burchill

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Miss Amesbury is especially happy in the use of quotations—and an apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. – L.E. Landon, Romance and Reality, 1832

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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. – Robert H. Schuller

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