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calamity quotes

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“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“A great calamity, for instance, is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.” Voltaire, Candide
“It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.” Albert Camus, The Plague

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Albert Camus (1)
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The Plague (1)
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