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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. the game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. you ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
-Ernest Hemingway
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My Attitude Toward Punctuation Is That It

Ernest Hemingway
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. the game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. you ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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