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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

By Thomas Love Peacock
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

By Thomas Love Peacock
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.

By Thomas Love Peacock
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

By Thomas Love Peacock
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

By Thomas Love Peacock
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

By Thomas Love Peacock