Quotes with gaming

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• All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

  John Gay
  British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  Charles Lamb
  English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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• Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

  William Wycherley
  British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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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
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started 'Achievement Hunter,' we expanded heavily into 'let's play'-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.

  Burnie Burns
  American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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• Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unprofitable
• transferring
• intermediate
• nevertheless
• achievement
• dedicated

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