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— Madame de Stael"The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns."
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If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
— Hilaire Belloc
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In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.
— Joseph Conrad
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