RETIRED NUISANCES
On the eve of his eighty-second birthday, Herbert Hoover, still elbowing though the crammed schedule of a twelve-hour-workday, explained his philosophy of late life: “There is no joy to be had from retirement except by some kind of productive work. Otherwise, you degenerate into talking to everybody about your pains and pills and income taxes. Any oldster who keeps at even part-time work has something worth talking about. He has a zest for the morning-paper and his three meals a day. The point of all this is not to retire from work, or you will shrivel up into a nuisance to all mankind.”
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