Who said "Necessity is the constant incentive to invention."?

This quote is attributed to Henry Fielding.

Necessity is the constant incentive to invention. - Henry Fielding

"Necessity is the constant incentive to invention."

Henry Fielding Creativity

Novelist Playwright English 1707–1754

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