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The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

Frederick Marryat

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Frederick Marryat
Age: 56 †
Born: 1792
Born: July 10
Died: 1848
Died: August 9
Naval Officer
Novelist
Officer
Writer
London
England
Author of Peter Simple
Naval officer
Kings own
Captain Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat
Captain Marryatt
Capt. Marryat
F. W. Marryat
F. M.
Frederick Captain Marryat
America
Tables
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Plenty
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Cooking
Proverb
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Sends
Devil
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Agree
Cooks
Says
Table
Food
Meat

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