Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… p. iii. Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son: 'I thought Play another necessary ingredient in the composition of a Man of Pleasure.' 12 And this, notwithstanding the deleterious effects of gambling, which were often noted: 'Gaming may have … part of the dynamics of 'conspicuous consumption.' 14 Mastering the rules of fashionable games, laying a wager for mere pleasure, losing with elegance, were skills that vouched for the public respectability of a gentleman, provided that he … fatal passion for cards and dice, which seems to have overturned, not only the ambition of excellence, but the desire of pleasure; to have extinguished the flames of the lover, as well as of the patriot; and threatens, in further progress, to …
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