“Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

On Not Knowing Greek http://books.google.com/books?id=lQLAv2zRY7MC&q=&quot;Humour+is+the+first+of+the+gifts+to+perish+in+a+foreign+tongue&quot;&pg=PA36#v=onepage <br class="br">The Common Reader (1925)

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