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C. S. Lewis Quotes: 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
         

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.


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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
         



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