Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.
In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.
As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.