I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing … - Thomas Love Peacock

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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist and poet. His conversational novels satirize the philosophical preoccupations of the Romantic era.

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