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 936. Behold the men that are blinded by the Genius of Wretchedness who cometh in the form of a passion for gambling : they will starve and suffer every misery.

937. If thou throw away thy time at the gambling-house, thy inheritance will be consumed and thy fair name will be wiped out.

938. Gambling will consume thy substance and corrupt thy honesty: it will harden thy heart and bring on thee misery.

939. Glory, learning, wealth, and even food and clothing will depart from the man who betaketh himself to gambling.

940. The passion for gambling increaseth with the losses incurred in the bettings: even so doth the craving of the soul for life grow with the griefs that it suffereth therein. Rh