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I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.
Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 8
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Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern.
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Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
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