"I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society."

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"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

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