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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
– Oscar Wilde

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  2. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde
  3. It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit? – Miles Davis
  4. There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. – Barack Obama
  5. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  6. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. – Oscar Wilde
  7. We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. – Oscar Wilde
  8. Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them. – Amit Ray
  9. Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing. – Pasha Cook
  10. Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth… – Keri Hulme
  11. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. – Oscar Wilde
  12. Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered. – Sunday Adelaja
  13. When I discovered music -” when I discovered the craft of shaping a song -” my being fell into place. – Charlotte Eriksson
  14. I don’t think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970’s. That’s when I discovered it anyway. – Craig Ferguson
  15. It is rarely in the world’s history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world. – Oscar Wilde
  16. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. – Oscar Wilde
  17. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. – Oscar Wilde
  18. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. – Diana Gabaldon
  19. You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word. – Laurie Seidler
  20. Her voice was a hushed whisper against my ear. An audible smile. – Richard E Gropp
  21. The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. – William Ellery Channing
  22. It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. – Edith Wharton
  23. Well I won’t argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for. – Oscar Wilde
  24. Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. – Oscar Wilde
  25. Men always want to be a woman’s first love, -women want to be a man’s last romance. – Oscar Wilde
  26. God and other artists are always a little obscure….. – Oscar Wilde
  27. Life has always poppies in her hands. – Oscar Wilde
  28. Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. – Oscar Wilde
  29. It was always once springtime in my heart. – Oscar Wilde
  30. I’m a man of simple tastes. I’m always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde
  31. Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose. – Oscar Wilde
  32. Bad artists always admire each others work. – Oscar Wilde
  33. Men always want to be a woman`s first love – women like to be a man`s last romance. – Oscar Wilde
  34. Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty. – Oscar Wilde
  35. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. – Oscar Wilde
  36. I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Oscar Wilde
  37. Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful. – Rivera Sun
  38. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. – Bill Clinton
  39. I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane. – Craig Ferguson
  40. This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America – Ilya Ilf

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