Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Act I, sc. ii.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen
Necessity, the mother of invention.
William Wycherley
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