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Thomas Love Peacock
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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
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#Science
#Race
#Destiny
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.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
Author
#Cure
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
Author
#Waste
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
Author
#Nothing
#Man
#Obvious
#Animals
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
Author
#Power
#Lies
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
Author
#Names
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
Author
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
Author
#Quotations
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love Peacock,
English
Author
#May
#Marriage
#Celibacy