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“The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!”

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Michael Flanders, a renowned British actor, was born on March 1, 1922, in London and passed away on April 14, 1975. Known for his unique sense of humor and acting skills, Flanders appeared in numerous theater, film, and television productions. more

“Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?”

People Thinking Knows Wells Has Beens Might White Cases Taken Dangerous Example Drink Red Blue Embrace Flags Towers Exclusive Yelling Oxford Ivory Ivory Tower Red White And Blue

Author:Lynne Truss

“It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.”

Ifs Should Trying Believe Has Beens Used Turns I Believe Interest My Own Century Dying Months Should Have Responsible Surprise Track Fewer 20th Century Deathbed Punctuation Chaps

Author:Lynne Truss

“"Croissant": However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying "kwass-ohn," the sooner you can expect to be presented with one.”

States Home United United States You Choose Croissants

Author:Bill Bryson

“If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.”

Ifs Fun

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.”

Book:Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

Source: Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

“I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger. I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen. Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being. Never this broken.”

Knows Want Humans Order Human Beings Break Know How Broken Gun Angry Hunger Hungry Pens Palestinian

Author:Suheir Hammad

“The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.”

World Art Nations Wind Drama Instruments Blow Architecture Silver Plastic Graphic Welsh No Drama Wind Instruments

Book:The world of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh

“I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.”

Long Term Worry Long Term

Author:George W. Bush

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