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Thomas Love Peacock has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
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The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
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There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent…
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have…
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I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of…
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Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
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The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
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Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out…
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,…
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the…
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'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
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Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as…
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Only a consistent, ongoing, deep experience can make a lasting media brand: one that has a commitment from a core community and…
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