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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an u

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. – Samuel Johnson

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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. – Proverb

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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. – Denis Diderot

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Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. – Proverb

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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. – English Proverb

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