[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.
Letter to Robert Darwin, October 1792. Quoted in Desmond King-Hele, Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement (1999)
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