QuoteQuest“I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.”
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I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing. Citation: 25 December 1492 Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus (CC BY-SA)Read evidence
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Columbus, Christopher. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Christopher Columbus. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
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