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Felix Meritis ("Happy through Merit") is the name of an intellectual society in Amsterdam, but subsequently used for the building they built for themselves on the Keizersgracht.

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Keizersgracht, Amsterdam Centrum

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1016 GC Amsterdam, Centrum
North Holland, Netherlands
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