Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ✨ Virgi…

Virginia Woolf
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.2260, Delphi Classics
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