“My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.”

—  William Osler

Vol. I, Ch. 24 : "The Fixed Period".
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)

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