Poem by Samuel Butler

Inventions

All the inventions that the world contains,
Were not by reason first found out, nor brains,
But pass for theirs who had the luck to light
Upon them by mistake or oversight.

1. Laborious Writers
2. Politicians
3. Fear
4. Smatterers
5. On a Club of Sots

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