No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human

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

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

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

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

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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