“If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
Anita Shreve (1946–2018) American writer
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“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.”
Prudence
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.
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