“ Life itself, I submitted, was a far too risky business as a whole to make each additional particular of danger worth regard. ”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). copy citation
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Source | Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes |
| Topic | danger life |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes |
Context
“The English have always long purses, and it might very well enter into some one's head to deal you an ill blow some night."
I told him I was not much afraid of such accidents; and at any rate judged it unwise to dwell upon alarms or consider small perils in the arrangement of life. Life itself, I submitted, was a far too risky business as a whole to make each additional particular of danger worth regard. "Something," said I, "might burst in your inside any day of the week, and there would be an end of you, if you were locked into your room with three turns of the key."
"Cependant," said he, "coucher dehors!"
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I told him I was not much afraid of such accidents; and at any rate judged it unwise to dwell upon alarms or consider small perils in the arrangement of life. Life itself, I submitted, was a far too risky business as a whole to make each additional particular of danger worth regard. "Something," said I, "might burst in your inside any day of the week, and there would be an end of you, if you were locked into your room with three turns of the key."
"Cependant," said he, "coucher dehors!"
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