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Friday, 5 September 2008

Daily Quote: "Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better." (Burney, Charles - Unity)

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

-- Schopenhauer, Arthur | Cards

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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

-- Lamb, Charles | Cards

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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.

-- Johnson, Samuel | Cards

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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.

-- Poe, Edgar Allan | Cards

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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.

-- Mamet, David | Cards

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