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    We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
    "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
    "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;
    But when did woman ever yet invent?"

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Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be put read more

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically
sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

by Jonathan Swift Found in: Invention Quotes,
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Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
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Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give--though it might seem bold--
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold.

by Henry S. Leigh Found in: Invention Quotes,
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.

by Jonathan Swift Found in: Invention Quotes,
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
a complex tool. And read more

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power
of a man and the well-being of mankind.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Invention Quotes,
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

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Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Invention Quotes,
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and
when the man of genius returns to the read more

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and
when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the
vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him
as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.

by Isaac D'israeli Found in: Invention Quotes,
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She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter:
I say she never did invent this letter;
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She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter:
I say she never did invent this letter;
This is a man's invention and his hand.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Invention Quotes,
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