Thursday, March 27, 2025

"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed."

      Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Prudence" (Essays:  first series, no. 7) par. 14 (Library of America 15 (1983), p. 364).  The comma is absent from p. 235 of vol. 2 of the 1903-1904 edition of the Complete works.

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