“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.”

“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 Twain