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We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
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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?"
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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.
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.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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.
Want, the mistress of invention.
Want, the mistress of invention.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
