In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.
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Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.
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And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.
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I have accepted a pension as a reward which has been thought due to my literary merit; and now that I have this pension, I am the same man in ...
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