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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
Grammar
Elwyn Brooks White

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

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
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Mark Twain

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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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Winston Churchill

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
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Joan Didion

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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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Elbert Hubbard

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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Moliere

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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.
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Carl Sandburg

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

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Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
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Alan James Bean

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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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Robert Frost

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun