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We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects.
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Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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Born:
1612
Died:
1672
(aged 60)
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Peter Stuyvesant served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.
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