Social Commentaries
Inventions
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language (ed. James Parton)
Social Commentaries
All the inventions that the world contains,
Were not by reason first found out, nor brains,
But pass for theirs who had the luck to light
Upon them by mistake or oversight.
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