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  • Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

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  • Bill Bryson And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Virginia Woolf Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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  • James Joyce Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Barometer: an ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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