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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 8039 |
| QUOTATION: | A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edward A. Boyden, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888). . . . |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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