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)

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

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