Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

1785-1866, British Author
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“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
VerifiedMelincourt, chapter XXIV. · evidenceWaste
“A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.”
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“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.”
VerifiedMelincourt, chapter VII (1817). · evidenceCelibacy
“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”
VerifiedCrotchet Castle, chapter XVIII. · evidenceAudiences
“Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.”
Animals