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I am sorry I
have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life:
it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
Cards are war,
in disguise of a sport.
-- Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist,
Critic
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.
-- David Mamet
1947-, American Playwright
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.
-- Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet,
Critic, short-story Writer
Because people
have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and
win one another's money. Idiots!
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher
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