It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall soon flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men!
— Johannes Gutenberg Medieval

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Describing his printing press

Date / Period

c. 1450s

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Humorous

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