There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central p… - William Somerset Maugham
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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer; often published as simply W. Somerset Maugham.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Somerset Maugham
It was not for me to leave the world and retire to a cloister, but to live in the world and love the objects of the world, not indeed for themselves, but for the Infinite that is in them.
Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.
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