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Letter "C" » calamity
«A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Learning
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calamity
«Calamity is the test of integrity.»
«Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
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calamity, discount, discounting, drama, Grown up, humbly, imagining, prestigious
«A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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anticipation, calamity, regardless
«Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? / Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.»
«A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping»
«Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.»
«Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint»
«Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.»
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