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- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. — Ambrose Bierce
- Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. — Ambrose Bierce
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
- [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Herman Boerhaave
- Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. — Arthur Helps
- A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn
- Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity. — Joseph Wood Krutch
- An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor
- We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton