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Charles Lamb used pseudonym Elia
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!
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David Garrick
Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
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Johnson, Samuel
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
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Johnson, Samuel
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
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Mamet, David
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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Mamet, David
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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Oliver Goldsmith
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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Poe, Edgar Allan
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
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Poe, Edgar Allan
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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William Cowper
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
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