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the Dutch
«In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch / Is offering too little and asking too much. / The French are with equal advantage content, / So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
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bottoms, cent, clap, clap on, the Dutch
«This will end the mythology of the dumb little Dutch boy with his stupid finger in the dike to save his country.»
Author: Louis van Gesteren
| About:
Ending
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dike, dikes, Dutch, His country, mythology, the Dutch
«RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Garden of, rectilinear, ritualism, the Dutch
«I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors? eyes ? a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby?s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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aesthetic, commensurate, compelled, contemplation, Continent, Dutch, enchanted, face to face, flowered, New World, pander, pandered, pandering, the Dutch, transitory, vanished, whispers
«I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
Dutch, forgot, German, Greek, Hebrew, the Dutch, vexes, vexing, wholly