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Read the following Passage ‘B’ carefully & choose the appropriate answer from the options given.
Passage-‘B’
None the less, at some time, I fear, everybody is a bore, because everybody now and again has a fixed idea to impart, and the fixed ideas of the few are the boredom of the many.
Also, even the least self-centred of men can now and then have a personal experience sufficiently odd to lose its true proportions and force him to inflict it over much on others. But bores as a rule are bores always, for egotism is beyond question the bore's foundation stone; his belief being that what interest him and involves himself as a central figure must interest you. Since he lives all the time, and all the time something is happening in which he is the central figure, he has always something new to discouse upon; himself, his house, his garden, himself, his house, his garden, himself, his wife, his children, himself, his car, his handicap, himself, his health, his ancestry, himself, the strange way in which, without inviting them to, all kinds of people confide in him and ask his advice, his humorous way with waiters, his immunity from influenza, his travels, the instinct which always leads him to the best restaurants, his clothes, his denist, his freedom from shibboleths, he being one of those men who look upon the open air as the best church, his possible ignorance of the arts but certitude as to what he himself likes, his triumphs over the income-tax people. These are the happy men, these world's axle trees.
What does the phrase ‘world’s axle trees’ imply in the context of the passage B?