November 20, 2008

PEOPLE DISLIKED AT THE BRIDGE TABLE


There is nothing which more quickly reveals the veneered gentleman than the card table, and his veneer melts equally with success or failure. If he wins, he becomes grasping or overbearing, because of his “skill”; if he loses he sneers at the “luck” of others and seeks to justify himself for the same fault that he criticised a moment before in another.

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