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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Gambling |
| Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones. Byron—The Age of Bronze. St. 3. | 1 |
| The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven. C. C. Colton—Lacon. Reflection. | 2 |
| Our Quixote bard sets out a monster taming, Arm’d at all points to fight that hydra, gaming. David Garrick—Prologue to Ed. Moore’s Gamester. | 3 |
| Shake off the shackles of this tyrant vice; Hear other calls than those of cards and dice: Be learn’d in nobler arts than arts of play; And other debts than those of honour pay. David Garrick—Prologue to Ed. Moore’s Gamester. | 4 |
| Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember’d, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin’d, Show equal poverty of mind. Gay—Fables. Pt. II. Fable 12. | 5 |
| Oh, this pernicious vice of gaming! Ed. Moore—The Gamester. Act I. Sc. 1. | 6 |
| I’ll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me—gamester. Ed. Moore—The Gamester. Act II. Sc. 1. | 7 |
| Ay, rail at gaming—’tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city—you’ll find a congregation in every tavern. Ed. Moore—The Gamester. Act IV. Sc. 1. | 8 |
| How, sir! not damn the sharper, but the dice? Pope—Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue II. L. 13. | 9 |
| It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. George Washington—Letter to Bushrod Washington. Jan. 15, 1783. | 10 |
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