The Man and His Two Sweethearts

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The Man and His Two Sweethearts
        A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two
        women at the same time.  One of them was young, and the other
        well advanced in years.  The elder woman, ashamed to be courted
        by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer
        visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs.  The
        younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an
        old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she
        could find.  Thus it came to pass that between them both he very
        soon found that he had not a hair left on his head.
       
        Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.