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Just as only serious illness can interrupt our memory, so only violent passions can interrupt our temperament and conduct.Our interests and hobbies may change, sometimes quite abruptly, but habit will moderate the process.A skilled painter, when mixing colors, also designs mixed paints so that people cannot detect the transition of colors.Some specific background colors have to be painted all over the canvas, so as not to cause sudden breaks in colors.Our inclinations should do the same.Unbalanced people, whose passions, interests, and affections are in perpetual flux, and whose only constant characteristic is perpetual change.But a man of stable temperament will eventually return to old habits, and the hobbies and interests of childhood are preserved until old age.