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is a system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

 makes the difference between feeling you're nuts and feeling your nuts.

Grammar makes the difference between feeling you're nuts and feeling your nuts.

is musical in its punctuation marks. Exclamation points are like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats, colons dominant seventh chords.

no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks.... Exclamation points are like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats, colons dominant seventh chords...

is the only domain where you can you be more than perfect.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

is the structure of language which has led us to think of actions in terms of doers and statements about those doers where in reality 'the doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed. The deed is everything.

lightning flashes.' Grammar would lead us to conclude that there is a subject-- 'lightning'-- and a predicate-- 'flashes.' But what is the lightning if not the flash' Nietzsche argues that grammar, and only grammar, has led us to think of actions in terms of subjects and predicates. In reality, he suggests, ''the doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed-- the deed is everything.' (Spark notes)

is not difficult to master. All the grammar that any human being ever needs can be learned in a few weeks from a little book as thin as a Ritz-Carlton sandwich.

All the grammar that any human being ever needs...can be learned in a few weeks from a little book as thin as a Ritz-Carlton sandwich.

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