The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
About Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacockwas 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.
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book – it is a plaything.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
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.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
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.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company