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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?
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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.
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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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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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Barometer: an ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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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.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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