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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. – Edgar Allan Poe

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

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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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