quotes about Comets
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A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.
-- Bathsua MakinSource : 1673 An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners, Art and Tongues,With An Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education.
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Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey -
I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.
-- Maria Mitchell