Note 332 — Chapter V · THE MORALITY OF CARD-PLAYING.
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"The low and profligate company which a gentleman of rank and education will frequently submit to keep, rather than lose his beloved Hazard, is such that, if he had been required to admit them simply on the ground of companions, he would certainly have looked upon it as an insufferable degradation."—A Dissertation on the pernicious effects of Gaming, published, by appointment, as having gained a Prize (June 1783) in the University of Cambridge. By Richard Hey, LL.D., Cambridge, 1784, p. 31.