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• This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

  Paul Auster

  Insanity, Risk, Tables

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• Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Modesty, Dignity, Forget

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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Travel, Air

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Player, Men, Games

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press

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• Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

  Frank Scoblete

  Years, Law, Wish

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• I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

  Wilford Brimley

  Games, Cards, Remember

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• Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

  Henry Fielding

  Luxury, Temptation, Vices

  Henry Fielding (1988). “An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings”, p.92, Wesleyan University Press

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• If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Evil, Desire

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.149

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• Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fire, Youth, Flax

  "Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin, 1736.

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• I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

  Henny Youngman

  Horse, Past, Half

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• If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

  Paul Newman

  Games, Looks, Tables

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• Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Spiders, Fool

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.123

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• In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

  Steven Wright

  Men, Las Vegas, Numbers

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• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, People, Justice

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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.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Taken, Losing, Given

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• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Break Even

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

  Euripides

  Luck, Genius, World

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• The lucky person passes for a genius.

  Euripides

  Lucky, Genius, Literature

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

  John Hay

  Money, Home, Luck

  Distichs no. 15 (1890)

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• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

  William Cobbett

  Names, Evil, Desire

  "Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (Letter 2)". Book by William Cobbett, 1829.

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• Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

  John Warren Kindt

  Years, Machines, Crime

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• The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Rap, Winning, Play

  FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Jun 15, 2014

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• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

  Vince Cable

  Loss, Years, Balance

  "The Storm ... how to survive it (and how to prevent its return)" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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• The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Men, Order

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• A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

  Artie Lange

  Christian, Drinking, Weekend

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