"When hosting high-ranking friends, former U. S. President, Theodore Roosevelt, was fond of taking his guests on evening walks. Inevitably, he would point skywards and recite:
"'That is the Spiral Galaxy of Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It is 2,500,000 light-years away. It consists of one hundred billion suns, many larger than our own sun.'
"The, following a brief silence, he would grin and say, 'Now, I think we are small enough. Let's go in.'"
-Thoughts Afield, Harold E. Kohn
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