Topics ยป Gambling
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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.
If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.