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  ...of any? -- and they thought that a prudent man would carefully select the safest position, where Dr. B. might be on hand at a moment's warning. To them the village was literally a community, a league for mutual defence, and you would suppose that they would not go a-huckleberrying without a medicine chest. 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.   Finally, there were the self-styled reformers, the greatest bores of all, who thought that I was forever singing,--
This is the house that I built; This is the man that lives in the house that I built;
but they did not know that the third line was,
These are the folks that worry the man That lives in the house that I built.
I did not fear the hen-harriers, for I kept no chickens; but I feared the men-harriers rather. I had more...   Thoreau, Henry David

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