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.”

 

I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.

—Robert Frost, 1959
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