Gerald Bivens

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risk

The amount of it is, if a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.1

Notes

  1. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," in The Portable Thoreau, ed. Carl Bode (New York: Penguin Books, 1947), 403-4.