"I wonder what fool it was that first…" — Jonathan Swift

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• Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a… — Miguel de Cervantes
• Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery… — Charles Lamb
• The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . .… — Chalmers Johnson
• From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that… — David Hume
• Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all,… — Miguel de Cervantes
• I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and… — Phyllis McGinley
• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Accurst be he that first invented war. — Christopher Marlowe
• I have one thing in common with the person who first invented an airplane; he knew one thing that I… — London Mond
• Blessing on him that first invented sleep! — Ritu Ghatourey

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