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— Mark Twain"[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug."
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The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself.
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Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.
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