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Lynne Truss

“Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.”

Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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