“4517. The King's Cheese goes half away in Pareings.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : The King's cheese is half wasted in parings, but no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Speech in Edinburgh (29 November 1879), quoted in Gladstone as Financier and Economist (1931) by F. W. Hirst, p. 243
1870s

“Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.”
On eating habits, Rollerderby fanzine (October 1993)
1991–1995

“"What is wealth?" the king would say,
"Even this shall pass away".”
All Things shall pass away, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 237
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Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 6