The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cea

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. – G. K. Chesterton

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A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Johann von Goethe

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Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people. – Maggie Kuhn

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With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern. – Matthew Arnold

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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. – George Burns

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