One often hears the stock trader’s sad lament,--“If I ever get even,
I’ll get out and _stay_ out!” But I never knew one of this class who
ever got “out even” and I never heard of one who stayed out if he did
get out even. If they get out, leaving a dollar in, they go back after
it; if they get out a few dollars ahead, they go back for more; in
any case they all go back. They wouldn’t be content to stay out of
the market any more than a little shorn lamb would be content to stand
overnight uncomplainingly in a blustering March storm, outside the open
gateway to a sheepfold where his brother lambs were snugly housed.
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