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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 known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Past
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Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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Experience
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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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Other Quotes from
Humor
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Humor is laughing at what you havent got when you ought to have it. – Langston Hughes

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Humor

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit. – Bobby Knight

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Humor

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. – Gelett Burgess

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Humor

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular. – Michael York

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Humor

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By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. – Mitt Romney

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A knitter only appears to be knitting yarn. Also being knitted are winks, mischief, sighs, fragrant possibilities, wild dreams. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Honesty

Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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