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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

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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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth
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Virginia Woolf
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, theyre going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much. – Janet Evanovich

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Humor

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem. – Allen Klein

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Humor

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Humor

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately. – Allen Klein

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Humor

Random Quotes

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. – Quintilian

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Nature

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You cant do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you – and its often a long haul. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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Politics

We drink one anothers health and spoil our own. – Jerome K. Jerome

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Health

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regimes strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. – Ma Jian

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strength