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Tag Name "Gamester" (7)

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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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.
George Edward Moore
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
Bernard-Joseph Saurin
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Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.
Francis Quarles
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
William Shakespeare