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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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain

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Carpe Diem
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Mark Twain
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All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – Mark Twain

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Día de los Muertos
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Mark Twain
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Grammar
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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

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. – Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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Grammar

There are grammatical errors even in his silence. – StanisÅ‚aw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, translated from Polish by Jacek GaÅ‚Ä…zka,

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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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Grammar

Random Quotes

Habit rules the unreflecting herd. – William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822

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Conformity

This is the strangest life Ive ever known. – Jim Morrison

Category:
Life

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going. – Anish Kapoor

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Fear

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. – Mason Cooley

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Failure