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gambling may succeed
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility. Charles Caleb Colton
gambling games fire
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. Charles Lamb
gambling folds
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. Charles Lamb
gambling soul nuisance
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. Charles Baudelaire
gambling nevada people push sports
The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish. Dick Davies
gambling honor dice
It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. William Shakespeare
gambling principles human-nature
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature. Edmund Burke
gambling luck meals
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. James Weldon Johnson
gambling good kids seeing
We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems. Edward Looney
luck fortune quarters
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter. Charlotte Bronte
lucky whole-life has-beens
I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that. Brian Wilson
lucky
Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky. DJ Qualls
luck human-nature tick
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? David McCullough
lucky beats chanting
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day. David Mitchell
lucky actors thumbs
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. Jane Birkin
luck ifs knows
If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else. Jandy Nelson
luck lucky talent
A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. Jane Austen
luck triumph talent
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. Jane Austen
genius film my-favorite
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films. Aaron Yoo
genius toil flight
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions. Charles Dickens
genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Charles Caleb Colton
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. Charles Caleb Colton
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. Charles Caleb Colton
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. Charles Caleb Colton
genius eccentricity
Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens
genius leicester jumpers
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius. Brian Clough
genius individual
Genius is individual, scenius is communal. Brian Eno