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

Other quotes by Heywood Broun

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. – Heywood Broun

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Fanaticism
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do. – Heywood Broun

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Baby, Babies
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Other Quotes from
Gambling (Gaming)
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Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. – Proverb

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

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 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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