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Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.
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Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful ; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth ; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.
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