Dutch Population

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

“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)