HOLLAND

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1. A country that draws fifty foot of water,
   In which men live as in the hold of Nature,
   And when the sea does in upon them break,
   And drowns a province, does but spring a leak.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Description of Holland
   

2. That water-land of Dutchmen and of ditches.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. Holland is one of the traditional lands of freedom; it was the home of independent intellect, of free religion, of autonomous morals, when every other country in Europe was closed to these manifestations of the spirit.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Task of Social Hygiene
   

4. Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies,
   Methinks her patient sons before me stand,
   Where the broad ocean leans against the land.—GOLDSMITH, The Traveller