Quote#Death
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the…
Quote byWilliam Shenstone · 1714–1763
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Essays on Men and Manners (1764), "On Writing and Books" LXXXIV, p. 129.
English (original)
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
— William Shenstone
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