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

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain

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Humor
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It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. – Mark Twain

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Heart
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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. – Mark Twain

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

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Grammar

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. – Carl Sandburg

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Grammar

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

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. – Isaac Babel

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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. – Alfred Hitchcock

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I like starting off the new year fresh. Im excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because Im an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Years resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body. – Busy Philipps

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