Dutch Colony

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“Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.

““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)