"America has never quite forgiven Europe for..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
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“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”
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“Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.”
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