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Nothing contrivable by human invention could be more formidably effective than that, in banishing imaginary ailments and in closing the entrances against subsequent applicants of their breed.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain

It is not a thing to be hired for money, nor contrivable on any wholesale plan.

From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

No machine yet contrived, or hereafter contrivable, will ever equal the fine machinery of the human fingers.

From The Two Paths by John Ruskin

Why it is the most ludicrous spectacle, the most inconsistent and incongruous spectacle, contrivable by even the most diseased imagination.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Nothing contrivable by human invention could be more formidably effective than that, in banishing imaginary ailments and in closing the entrances against sub-sequent applicants of their breed.

From Christian Science by Mark Twain




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