John I. Beggs

 Keep your brain active if you want to enjoy life at my age. Never have I let myself stand still for a day. Keep going - think, study. Because one has made enough money to sit by and look on if he so wishes is no reason to do so. There is no prescription for a long life that has retirement contained in it. I work 12 hours a day. I couldn't get into a labor union because anyone who works as I do would demoralize it. (to a reporter at age 76) 

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