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

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. – Mark Twain

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Happiness
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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. – Mark Twain

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Ridicule
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It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! – Mark Twain

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Springtime
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Grammar
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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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Grammar

Grammar: The grave of letters. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on R

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Grammar

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

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Grammar

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. – Oscar Wilde, variously worded paraphrase, see quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/25/c

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Grammar

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Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure. – Emilio Estevez

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Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. – Carter Burwell

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Learning

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. – John Perry Barlow

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Society

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. – François-René de Chateaubriand, Le Génie du Christianisme, 1802

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Writing