Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes

The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

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• The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

  

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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  • Gentlemen
  • Exercises