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

Thomas Love Peacock

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Original Citation

Peacock, Thomas Love. Melincourt. London: T. Hookham, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817, ch. 7.

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Peacock, Thomas Love. Melincourt, edited by Gary Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 7.

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A quote by Thomas Love Peacock about marriage: “Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy…”

A quote by Thomas Love Peacock about marriage: “Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy…”

A quote by Thomas Love Peacock about marriage: “Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy…”