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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes its sheer luck, like getting across the street. – E. B. White

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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. – Joseph Lancaster

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