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Quote by William Safire
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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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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I always put the apostrophe in “ain’t” to make certain I’m using proper improper English. – Author unknown

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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 a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. – Joan Didion, “Why I Write,” 1976

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