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Mark Quotes by Lynne Truss
- Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
- The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have…
- In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
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- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I… — Roseanne Barr
- The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the… — William Bartram
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- This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. — Cyrano de Bergerac