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Quote by Heywood Broun
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable

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

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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. – Heywood Broun

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Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces. – Proverb

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

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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

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