Calamitous Quotes
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.
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More Calamitous Quotes
From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.
david brin— Part V (p. 250)
Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.
Aristophanes— Aristophanes, Birds; translation by John Hookham Frere.
Reason serves as a universal tool for the fabrication of all other tools, rigidly purpose-directed and as calamitous as the precisely calculated operations of material production, the results of which for human beings escape all calculation. Reason’s old ambition to be purely an instrument of purposes has finally been fulfilled.
— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 23 (Sourced)
