You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.

— Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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