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Thomas Love Peacock [1785-1866] English
Rank: 104
Author, Novelist


Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work.

Alone, Marriage



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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
101
There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.
102
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. Alone
103
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. Marriage
104
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
105
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
106
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
107
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
108
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
109

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