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The stupid and the children of genius alike emancipate themselves from conventions.

— Mary Augusta Jordan Correct Writing and Speaking (1906)

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Going to college was a thing quite by itself, an experience to be reckoned with--something like Platonic love, or getting religion.

Spacious Days at Vassar (1916)

Letters of friendship, of love, of hate, of business, of state, have come into new value within the last twenty-five years. Reading them has come to be one of the most alluring pleasures of a large class of persons.

Correct Writing and Speaking (1906)

There are so many ways that persons of intelligence have of expressing themselves. Some of these ways have little in common, many of them are contradictory in method, most of them differ in the effect aimed at, or the impression made.

Correct Writing and Speaking (1906)

There certainly is at present, then, no standard English, either in writing or in speaking, that is easily and cheaply available. There is no one correct way of writing or of speaking English. Within certain limits there are many ways of attaining correctness.

Correct Writing and Speaking (1906)

A young generation felt a strange call from the future and so turned a perfectly courteous back upon the past with its failures; and with a resolute morning face fronted the new order of things where everybody should have a fair chance, where it should never be too late to make a fresh start, and where friendship should be the leading business of individuals and of nations.

Spacious Days at Vassar (1916)

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