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Play not for gain, but sport. who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.
-George Herbert
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George Herbert
Play not for gain, but sport. who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.
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