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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. - William Safire

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. – William Safire

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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. – William Safire

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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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There is no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks…. Exclamation points are like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats, colons dominant seventh chords… – Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), “Punctuation Marks,” Notes to Literature, V

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Grammar is the grave of letters. – Elbert Hubbard

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

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