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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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You know you’re a language nerd when you have a strong opinion about serial commas. – Author unknown

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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. – Lewis Thomas

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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know. – Mistinguett, quoted in Theatre Arts, Volume39, Issue12, 1955

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Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don’t seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines. – Author unknown

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