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When it comes to take one’s chances with a stranger, we may be better off keeping our expectations reasonably pragmatic ...instead of plunging into the wilderness with our hearts exposed.

“As I look back on my long and arduous struggle to make myself over,” Mr. Hitchens wrote, “and on my dismaying recent glimpses of lost babyhood, I am more than ever sure that it’s enough to be born once, and to take one’s chances, and to grow old disgracefully.”

Sometimes it's fine to take one's chances.

I think as you do, that it's better to do some fighting, and take one's chances of being killed by a bullet rather than by camp fever.

"One must take one's chances!" he said.