People · 1994
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
— Mason Cooley ‧ City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A wry aphorism about later life: once work ends, only two things seem to matter, finances and physical ailments. It's a dry, slightly gloomy shorthand for how attention narrows, with money worries on one side and bodily complaints on the other filling the days.
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