The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ✨ Al…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ✨ Alarms And Discursions. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.
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