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Retirement Quotes - Page 10

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.

Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Beauty and Sadness”, p.114, Vintage