So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.
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Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
He gave the world another world.
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
People don't forget, do they?