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Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. - Virgini

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. – Virginia Woolf

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. – Virginia Woolf

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. – Sir John Denham

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable — any real insight or broad human sentiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. – Leonardo Sciascia

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History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer

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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. – Roy Lichtenstein

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You know when everyones watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine. – Shaun Alexander

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