Thomas Love Peacock
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"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. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting — characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.

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

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

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.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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

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.