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Famous quotes containing the words dutch, literature, golden and/or age:

    “Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
    Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
    metaphor.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Raise children for your old age as you would store up grain against famine.”
    —Chinese proverb.