…Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes.
– Elizabeth Peters
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- The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams – Paul C Nagel
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