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

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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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