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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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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. – Mark Twain

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Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven. – Mark Twain

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

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[B]ut why care for grammar as long as we are good? – Artemus Ward (1834–1867), Pyrotechny, “V.—What This Young Man Said”

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. – Source Unknown

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. – Joan Didion, “Why I Write,” 1976

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Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

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