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My personal hero on the thorny subject of punctuation is Lord Timothy Dexter [1748-1806]. In his autobiography, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones: or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, he added an appendix consisting of a whole bunch of punctuation. As he wrote: "fouder mister printer the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust edition had no stops I put in A Nuf here and thay may peper and solt it as they plese".
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