Necessity is the mother of invention.

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Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston

Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1136. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1136

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True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 25543. Printed attribution: Pascal. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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To a poet nothing can be useless.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 25034. Printed attribution: Johnson. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 10874. Printed attribution: Montaigne. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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