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

Thomas Love Peacock

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Topic

Marriage Single life

Speaker

Sir Telegraph Paxarett

Author

Thomas Love Peacock

Source

Melincourt

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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

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