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Quote by Mark Twain
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain

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Rainbows
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Mark Twain
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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. – Mark Twain

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Religion
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Mark Twain
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Man was made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain

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God
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Other Quotes from
Grammar
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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. – Isaac Babel

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Grammar

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. – Mark Twain

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Grammar

Every time you make a typo, the errorists win. – Author unknown

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Grammar

A semicomma, we should note, doesn’t exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn’t it? – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

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Grammar

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Take care of your body. Its the only place you have to live. – Jim Rohn

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May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind. – Author Unknown

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Hanukkah

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma – like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place – and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education. – Jennifer Garner

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You cannot blame the Sahara alone for the troubles. But you should also not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. – William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

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Arizona