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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he

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

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Rich mens houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. – Margot Asquith

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Beauty
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Margot Asquith
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. – Margot Asquith

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Liberty
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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. – Author Unknown

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He stands in history as the completer of the globe. – John Sterling

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Columbus Day

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. – Author Unknown

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. – John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

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