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"My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: "It can't be done."
-John Scarne
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"When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice, he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to a finite, visible and comprehensive size."
-Annabel Davis-Goff, The Literary Companion to Gambling
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"If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough."
-VP Pappy
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"Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1867)
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"A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses."
-Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
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"Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy."
-Dr. G
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"No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner."
-Lord Dewar
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Something to moan out between grinding teeth after this political season. "Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of 'em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?"
-Jack Norris
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"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one."
-Pope John XXIII
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"With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith."
-Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas
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