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Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time,

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. – Edmund Arthur Helps

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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. – Margot Asquith

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

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