“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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Nie Kolumb pierwszy odkrył Amerykę, ale pierwszy ją opatentował.

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