Retirement
In 1931, Housel and his wife were travelling in Managua, Nicaragua when a major earthquake destroyed their hotel. Because they were on the road at the time, they survived. When not travelling the world, they resided in Brownsville, Texas in winter and Humboldt for the rest of the year. He died in Rochester, Minnesota in September 1935 following a lingering illness.
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Famous quotes containing the word retirement:
“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man’s enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
“The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Douglas. Now remains a sweet reversion—
We may boldly spend, upon the hope
Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
Hotspur. A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)