"It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!"

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Source : Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press

Richard Lederer

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“The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”

Source : "Woman Suffrage", Vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, 1902.
“We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others”

Source : Curtis Sittenfeld (2012). “American Wife”, p.110, Random House
“Being a role model is a privilege.”
“Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.”

Source : "A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation". theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2007.
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”
“The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.”
“No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.”
“Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.”

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