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Gambling is an express train to ruin.
Gambling is play in name, but crime in reality.
He who gambles picks his own pocket.
The man who takes a wager when he has won it is simply thieving
by consent of the loser -- he has no right to anything of his
neighbor's without giving value for it -- a present only
excepted.
W. H. Howe
Gambling is but one remove from theft, and both are the
offspring of covetousness.
W. H. Howe
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of
prodigality.
Colton
By gambling we lose both our time and treaure, two things most
precious to the life of man.
Feltham
Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it
is getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
H. W. Beecher
Curst is the wrench enslaved to such a vice, who ventures life
and soul upon the dice.
Horace
Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.
Franklin
Gaming is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and
the father of mischief.
Washington
Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and
gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a
mortgage.
Cumberland
Bets, at the first, were fool-traps, where the wise, like
spiders, lay in ambush for the flies.
Dryden
Sports and gaming, whether pursued from a desire of gain or the
love of pleasure, are as ruinous to the temper and disposition
of the one addicted to them, as they are to his fame and
fortune.
Burton
Gaming finds a man a cully, and leaves him a knave.
Cumberland
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