Carolina QuotesOn the poor use of grammar It's a matter of usage. If a house is off-plumb and rickety and lets in the wind, you blame the mason, not the bricks. Our words are up to the job. It's our syntax that's limiting.
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- Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
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- 2000
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