I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
Mark TwainThere are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
Mark TwainWhat marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
Mark Twain