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| My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~ A.A. Milne |
| Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. ~ Bronson Alcott |
| Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ~ Richard C. Trench |
| It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word. ~ Andrew Jackson |
| I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~ Mark Twain |
| Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. ~ Henry Louis Mencken, |
| Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language… the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. ~ Rémy de Gourmont |
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. ~ Mark Twain |
| When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split. ~ Raymond Chandler |
| Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~ Owens Lee Pomeroy |
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| Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. ~ Robert Brault |
| This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. ~ Attributed to Winston Churchill |
| Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~ William Safire |