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C 7 5 Of Prodigality in Trustees Diss.

From p. 12. No 1

Statesmen reduced by gaming &c For the plain and palpable cause of the misfortunes
which surround him is neither more nor less
than a mixture of folly and rapacity equally
disgraceful to the heart and the understanding.
Of folly which could hazard a certain comfort
for the sake of an a chance of gain the value
of which can never be equal adequate to the risk (a): of rapacity
which could seek an advantage to itself
at the expence of a more than equivalent distress
and mischief to another.

NOTES

(a) For This is founded on the maxim that it
is worse to lose than simply not to gain: or in other
words that the same sum never produces
as much pain pleasure by being added to a man's
fortune as it does pain to a man of the same
fortune by being taken away from it. This maxim
is one of the principal grounds of the Law of property:
The demonstration of it though is too wide
of the present purpose to be inserted here.

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