- Thomas Love Peacock
(10/18/1785 – 01/23/1866)
English writer
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"I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race."
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"If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments."
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
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"An improper mind is a perpetual feast."
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"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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| "It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to." |  |
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"I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour."
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"If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior."
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"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there."
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"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"
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"We have a strange and wonderful relationship—he's strange and I'm wonderful."
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"I'm just your wild working musician."
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| "Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death." |  |
| "It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork." |
"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost!"
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| Born 10/17 | Born 10/18 | Born 10/19 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 10/17 | Died 10/18 | Died 10/19 | Death Dates |