"If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better."

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Source : WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”

William Strunk, Jr.

#Air Quotes #Quotation Marks Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.”
“To move freely you must be deeply rooted.”
“Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it”
“[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.”
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
“Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.”
“One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.”
“We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.”

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