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

Babel, Isaac on Grammar
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"Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?"

Bean, Alan James on Grammar
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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

Churchill, Winston on Grammar
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"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."

Didion, Joan on Grammar
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"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."

Frost, Robert on Grammar
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"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."

Hemingway, Ernest on Grammar
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"Grammar is the grave of letters."

Hubbard, Elbert on Grammar
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"Grammar, which can govern even Kings."

Moliere on Grammar
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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."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Grammar
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"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."

Sandburg, Carl on Grammar
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"Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath."

Thomas, Lewis on Grammar
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"When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat."

Thoreau, Henry David on Grammar
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"From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. 'After dinner, the men moved into the living room'. I explained to the professor that this was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth."

Thurber, James on Grammar
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"Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame."

Twain, Mark on Grammar
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"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."

Unknown, Source on Grammar
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"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."

White, Elwyn Brooks on Grammar
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"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on Grammar
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