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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

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain

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work
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A man can seldom — very, very, seldom — fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. – Mark Twain

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Training
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. – Mark Twain

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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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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

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. – Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. “The Mudge,” from “Th

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Grammar

A pronoun… will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: they does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays. – Karen Elizabeth Gordon, “Agreements,” The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimat

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Random Quotes

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate. – Ryan Lochte

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris

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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, its all right. Were scared that if the truth comes out that its not all right. Its the other way around. – Yoko Ono

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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. – Richard M. Nixon

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