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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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Other Quotes from
Humor
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All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor. – Graham Kerr

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Humor

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. – Terrence Howard

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Humor

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what Im here for. – Bootsy Collins

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Humor

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? – Max Frisch

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Humor

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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Theres good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we cant really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly. – Demian Bichir

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Trust

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldnt find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. Thats when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business. – Vera Wang

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Business

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. – Sydney Pollack

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Failure