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6 days ago · Leo Rosten: Short stories, novel: United States: Hyman Kaplan is a Jewish immigrant taking language classes at a night school. Rosten presents him in the tradition of language-based humor highlighting Kaplan's "tongue-in-cheek mistakes which, most of the time, spring from a calculated meeting of Yiddish with English". 1945: Debbie ...
3 days ago · Jojo (@its_mojojojo_). 3 Replies. 41 Likes. "I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." — Leo Rosten .
4 days ago · A list of the best appearance quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous appearance quotes are at the top.
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2 days ago · Leo Rosten. (1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist. Mistakes Problems Enjoyment. To err is human to forgive, infrequent. Franklin Adams. (1881 – 1960) American columnist. Characteristics Failure Mistakes Problems Err Forgiveness.
3 days ago · Leo Rosten? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Philosophers, linguists, and humorists enjoy the following joke about tacit knowledge: A person enters a café and requests coffee without cream.
4 days ago · For the Code of Canon Law (1983), a Catholic church is nothing other than a space consecrated for the public celebration of divine worship. But when defining with a minimum of precision what architectural object is a church, we have to answer two questions: what it represents and how it is used.
3 days ago · Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Paddy Chayefsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Horton Foote, William Goldman, Robert Benton, Bo Goldman, Waldo Salt, and the Coen brothers have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays.
