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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My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice [in my opinion], no book - it is a plaything.

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

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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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