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Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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Ambrose Bierce is humorously suggesting that inventors create clever mechanical devices and then overestimate their importance to society. He implies that inventors might mistake their technical cleverness for true progress or advancement in civilization.

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