Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. - Prover

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

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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. – William S. Burroughs

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. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. – W. H. Auden

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