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Famous quotes containing the words dutch and/or fleet:

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

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)