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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - V

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf

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Education
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Virginia Woolf
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats—and one always secretes too much jelly. – Virginia Woolf

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Quotations
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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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Dreams
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Virginia Woolf
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

Democratic politicians have disliked things Ive written, Republican politicians… if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck. – Adam Clymer

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Humor

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. – Mark Twain

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Humor

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. – Mark Twain

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Humor

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. – Dweezil Zappa

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Humor

Random Quotes

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. – Tom Stoppard

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work

Asthma is a disease that has practically the same symptoms as passion except that with asthma it lasts longer. – Author Unknown

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Medical

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. – Ken Burns

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Future

I dont miss politics. – Jeb Bush

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Politics