Quotes with cookery

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• Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.

  Vera, or the Nihilists (1883)

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Kissing don't last: cookery do!

  George Meredith
  British Author (1828 - 1909)
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• Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intellectual
• improvement
• brandishing
• frying-pan
• provided
• american

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