I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being a

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

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

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. – Elbert Hubbard

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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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