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“The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax”
Thomas Paine quotes (English born American Writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. 1737-1809)
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“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
Frantz Fanon quotes

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“Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.”
Raymond Chandler quotes (American Writer, author of detective fiction,1888-1959)

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“Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.”
Dorothy L. Sayers quotes (British Writer, 1893-1957)

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“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)

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