The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. ✨ Aph…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 42, 1799.
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