Greater Dutch

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“O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee,
Whose graceless children scorn to own thee!
... Yet thou hast greater cause to be
Ashamed of them, than they of thee.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

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