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| | Pennsylvania Dutch Culture |
 | | It is perfectly true that the Dutch carried thrift and saving and industry to a fault; selling everything and living on little; but when one understands their origins and what for centuries they had been through in the Palatinate, one realizes how it was with the Dutch. |
 | | The Dutch, even before they came to America, had seen plenty of soldiering, and it is therefore not surprising that they ranked high in Revolutionary soldiering-nor that in the great World War America picked as the head of her entire army, the largest in American history, General John J. Pershing, a Dutchman. |
 | | The imagination of the Dutch, due to their language handicap, was rarely expressed in written words, although there exists now a fair amount of verse and story in dialect, written in the last 40 years. |
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