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\u201cNo matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, \u201cGood food at it\u2019s best\u201d, you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lynn Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation<\/em><\/p>\n

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