Hugh Plat Quote

I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.

Hugh Platt, 1589; Cited in: Samuel Smiles Industrial biography; iron-workers and tool-makers, (1864) p. 148

I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good...

I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good...

I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good...

I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good...