What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick ...out above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, ...I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood.... For the want of merely a comma, it often ...occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like bei...ng surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. "After dinner, the men moved into the living room." I explained to the professor ...that this was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »