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Inserenda

The nature of things: and this must be continue in the nature
of things, till men grow generous enough
to prefer seeing other people’s debts paid satisfied to
(having) their own. The whining peevish maudlin declamations
of tactical moralists will not alter it of a
feather.

What is to be endeavoured at therefore is not
to persuade people to be heroes, & postpone their gaming
debts to their commercial debts, but of much
less to be sharpers (villains), and not pay their gaming
debts at all, but to be prudent, & not to
game. A task difficult enough it must
be confessed, but not yet quite altogether so hopeless, as the other.
To their point of forberance there want not
persuasives founded on men's acknowledged
interests and principles of action, and to which the force of
therefore there may be some hope of man's being
made sensible.

One consideration of this sort is, that in point
of pleasure, a man always stake more when
he games, than the value of his chance for winning.

Inserenda

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Folio number	014	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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