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Wisdom about retirement.

What people have learned about retirement the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.

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From the library

There should be a neighbouring state within sight, and the voices of the fowls and dogs should be heard all the way from it to us, but I would make the people to old age, even to death, not have any intercourse with it.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.