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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes: Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
         

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.


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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
         



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