S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. | | Games |
| The institution of sports was intended by all governments to turn off the thoughts of the people from busying themselves in matters of state. Joseph Addison. | 1 |
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It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. Joseph Addison. | 2 |
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Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card-table and those cutting passions which attend them. Joseph Addison. | 3 |
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The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. William Thomas Brande. | 4 |
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Let the world have their May-games, wakes,
and whatsoever sports and recreations please them, provided they be followed with discretion. Robert Burton. | 5 |
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Profitable employments would be no less a diversion than any of the idle sports in fashion, if men could but be brought to delight in them. | 6 |
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As to cards and dice, I think the safest and best way is never to learn to play upon them, and so be incapacitated for those dangerous temptations and encroaching wasters of time. | 7 | |
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