Connections Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

“Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.” quote by Thomas Love Peacock — Download Open image

“Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.”

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But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till…

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

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

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“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but…

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Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

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When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from…

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“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was…

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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 the impossible,…

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

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“On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected…

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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 it... prevention…

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an…

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