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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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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven. – Mark Twain

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Humor
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Mark Twain
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If its your job to eat a frog, its best to do it first thing in the morning. And If its your job to eat two frogs, its best to eat the biggest one first. – Mark Twain

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best
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Mark Twain
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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. – Mark Twain

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Kindness
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The serial comma is sexy, smart, and useful. – Author unknown

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Grammar

If the English language had been properly organised by a businessman or Member of Parliament, then there would be a word which meant both “he” and “she”, and I could write, “If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis”, which would save a lot of trouble. – A.A. Milne

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Grammar
[S]ometimes… quotation marks are an absolute crime against humanity. – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

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Grammar

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. – Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence wi

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Grammar

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. – Rita Dove

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Age

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. – Terry Pratchett

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Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and Id record for hours and hours until its time to go to sleep. – Michael Jackson

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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Religion