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The Familiar Changes As We Cling To It.

Pride Sings And Dances; Humility Sighs.

Many Pains Are Imaginary, But All Joys Are Real.

The Irrational May Be Attractive In The Abstract, But Not In Cab Drives, Dinner Guests, Or Elderly Relatives.

The Interest In Wisdom Is Fading. Soon There Will Not Be Enough Left To Support The Aphorism, Even Though It Tries To Amuse By Half-mocking The Wisdom It Propounds.