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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.433, Oxford University Press on Demand
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.