Famous Quotes | A great calamity ... is as old...

A great calamity ... is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Attribution: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), U.S. writer, physician. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch. 2 (1858).

Categories: Disasters, Physician, Writer

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