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The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage… — Henry L. Ellsworth

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

Henry L. Ellsworth
1843
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1843
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Henry L. Ellsworth
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Ellsworth, Henry L. "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year." U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1843.

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