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Edgar Allan Poe has 333 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of…
— Truman Capote
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There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
— Tom Stoppard
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Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
— Chris Martin
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History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full…
— Mark Slouka
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean..…
— Nicki Minaj
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I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you…
— Umberto Eco
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If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a…
— Roy Peter Clark
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