Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (1816)

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Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Thomas Love Peacock

'I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and distinct character, which I call unexpectedness.'
'Pray, sir,' said Mr Milestone, 'by what name do you distinguish this character, when a person walks round the grounds for the second time?'

Thomas Love Peacock

But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

Thomas Love Peacock

All philosophers who find Some favorite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit Will force all nature to submit.

Thomas Love Peacock