Quotes with damnable

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• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

  ― Martin Luther
  German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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• Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

  ― Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• instruments
• ridiculous
• machines
• horrible
• children
• invented

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