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~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
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Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
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My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers The eternal dews of Helicon have given: And trod the mountain height, Where Science, young and bright, Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven. Yet have I found no power to vie With thine, severe necessity!
~ Thomas Love Peacock Quote