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[S]ometimes... quotation marks are an absolute crime against human
[S]ometimes… quotation marks are an absolute crime against humanity. – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

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Mr Speaker, I said the honourable Member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable Member may place the punctuation where he pleases. – Attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), responding to a rebuk

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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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Grammar makes the difference between feeling you’re nuts and feeling your nuts. – Internet meme

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