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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

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. – Mark Twain

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Swimming
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Mark Twain
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

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Life
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Mark Twain
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Mr Speaker, I said the honourable Member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable Member may place the punctuation where he pleases. – Attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), responding to a rebuk

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Grammar

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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Grammar

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. – William Safire

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Grammar

Practice safe text — use commas, and never miss a period. – Internet meme

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Grammar

Random Quotes

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak Gods language – its better, its finer, its language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. – Stephen King

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God

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. – Jimmy Carter

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Patriotism

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public. – Norm Coleman

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Trust