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Thomas Love Peacock
(1785 - 1866 / England)
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Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything t...
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British author. Crotchet Castle, ch. 7 (1831).
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''A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.''
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British author. Dr. Folliot, in Crotchet Castle, ch. 9 (1831).
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''Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.''
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British author. Lady Clarinda, in Crotchet Castle, ch. 3 (1831).
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''Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.''
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British author. Melincourt, ch. 7 (1817).
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''The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.''
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British author. Melincourt, ch. 24 (1817).
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''I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.''
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British author. Mr. Skionar, in Crotchet Castle, ch. 18 (1831).
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''In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
On a brilliant night of June:
They carried a net, and their hearts were set
On fishing up the moon.''
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British poet. Nightmare Abbey (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couc...
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''The rich man goes out yachting,
Where sanctity can't pursue him;
The poor goes afloat
In a fourpenny boat,
Where the bishop groans to view him.''
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British poet. Rich and Poor; or, Saint and Sinner (l. 36-40). . .
Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey G...
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''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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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British poet. The Misfortunes of Elphin (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Fr...
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