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People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. – Johann von Goethe

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I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. – Thurgood Marshall

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Dont you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it – Hal Borland

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Sooner or later Im going to die, but Im not going to retire. – Margaret Mead

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