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I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Autobiography

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Submitted by David Larsson on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 09:25

At the last moment, he went to the printers and stopped the presses. The article never appeared. I was frustrated and angry. But I was also extremely interested in why they cared enough to ban my article.

— Janos Vargha, a biologist from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Fred Pearce, "The dam that broke the Berlin Wall ," New Scientist, July 8, 2009

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