“Gambling is a wretched vice,” Lady Corey replied with a sniff. “A snare for men of weak character.”
David D. Levine (1961) science fiction writer
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 5, “Navigation” (p. 71)
“Gambling is the contraction of all vices into one.”
Os Brâmanes, p. 53
Os Brâmanes (1866)
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