The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1835. © The Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource.

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Volume IX, Number 2 | spring 2016

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Arthur Schopenhauer referred to insurance as “a public sacrifice made on the altar of anxiety.”

 

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

—Edmund Burke, 1796
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