“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)
“Columbus was not the first one to discover America, only the first to patent it.”
Nie Kolumb pierwszy odkrył Amerykę, ale pierwszy ją opatentował.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
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