Jakub Marian Quotes

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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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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[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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It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to 'ʌoo'.

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

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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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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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