I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else...I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else…I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can’t reach old age by another man’s road.

– Mark Twain

At 70th birthday dinner, in 1905, as quoted in Saving Your Brain, by Jeff Victoroff

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