“I have found a perfect definition of human nature as distinguished from the animal. Benjamin Franklin said, Man was a ‘tool-making animal’, which is very well; for no animal but man makes a thing. But this applies to very few of the species. My definition of Man is, a ‘Cooking Animal’. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the facilities and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.”
Samuel Johnson , 1709-1784
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