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.
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If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.