Jakub Marian Quotes

#1. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.

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#2. Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it.

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#3. Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in a hotel over Christmas. It is most certainly not the reason why it is called 'hotel', but it will hopefully help you remember that the stress is actually on the second syllable.

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#4. Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection between the words "village" and "age" whatsoever.

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#5. [An example of misattribution:]

If you don't know the source of a quote,
you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me.

- Mark Twain

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#6. Of course, you cannot just blurt out a quote whenever you feel like it. For a quote to have the desired effect, it must be properly introduced.

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