"I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn."
— Planet

January 1, 1970

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Rev. James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (Frederick Warne & Co., 1893), p. 166