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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet > Thomas Love Peacock
I never failed...
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Source: Mr. Skionar, in Crotchet Castle, ch. 18 (1831).
-- Thomas Love Peacock, (Oct 18 1785-1866), English novelist, poet; He satirized the intellectual tendencies of his day in novels in which conversation predominates over character or plot.