Reader's Digest Asia Pacific

COMMA SENSE

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While Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a member of the English Parliament, he was called upon to apologise to a fellow member. He rose and said: “Mr Speaker, I said the honourable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it,” adding that the honourable member could place the punctuatio­n marks where he pleased.

RD JULY 1962

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