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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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I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. – Mark Twain

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it aint so. – Mark Twain

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I always put the apostrophe in “ain’t” to make certain I’m using proper improper English. – Author unknown

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[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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[A] man must be a d—d fool, who can’t spell a word more than one way. – Author unknown, 1855, anecdote from Jamestown Journal (Thanks, Garson O’To

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Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. – Ronald W. Langacker (b.1942), Language and Its Structure, 1973

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. – William Hazlitt

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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. – William James

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My opponents attitude is, If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it. – Rob Simmons

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