Peter Annet (1693 – 18 January 1769) was an English deist and early freethinker.
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“Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, “a centrifugal tendency.” In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.”
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“there it entwined like a true love’s knot
For all true loves to admire.”
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