50 some years ago, at the tender age of 6, I had the opportunity to sit at the poker table with my grandpa, dad and several of their hunting companions. After several hours of watching them take each other's money, smoke each other's cigars, drink each other's whiskey and telling tales of all the bucks they'd shot over the years, I told my grandpa that him and his friends must be great hunters cause of all the huge bucks that they had killed. He turned and smiled as he said to me...."son, a big buck will die a thousand glorious deaths, but a nubbin will die humbly only once".
It took me a few years to understand fully what he meant.