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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

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Self
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Virginia Woolf
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? – Virginia Woolf

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relationship
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Humor is healing. – Brad Garrett

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Theres something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality. – Connie Britton

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The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far. – Nancy Cartwright

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Wit.—Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions” (#202, 1879), Human, Al

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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. – Edwin Land

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Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home… and eating it. – Rene Redzepi

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. – Alfred North Whitehead

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