It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?


The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq (ed. 1721)


It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what...

It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what...

It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what...

It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what...