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“Necessity, the mother of invention.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Twin Rivals. Act i.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 138d1597f3d4287e5413bef0d3ff36e4b8e9ce369691581215c97de8adf99495
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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