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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
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No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
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Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
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The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
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One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
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Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
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Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.
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Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
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Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
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Never bet on baseball.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
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One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
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