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— Groucho Marx"The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.
— E. B. White
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