Lucretia B
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390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucretia B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In themselves, most of the games employed in gambling are without harm.
Billiard tables are as harmless as tea tables, and a pack of cards as a pack of letter envelopes, unless stakes be put up.
But by their use for gambling purposes, they have become significant of an infinity of wretchedness.
In New York City there are said to be six thousand houses devoted to this sin.
In Philadelphia about four thousand.
In Cincinnati, about one thousand and
At Washington, the amount of gaming is beyond calculation.
There have been seasons when, by night, senators, representatives, and ministers of foreign governments were found engaged in this practice.
Men wishing to gamble will find places just suited to their capacity.
not only in the underground oyster cellar.
Or at the table back of the curtain covered with greasy cards, or in the steamboat smoking cabin, where the bloated wretch with rings in his ears deals out his pack and winks in the unsuspecting traveller, providing free drinks all around, but in gilded parlors and amid
Gorgeous surroundings, this sin works ruin first by unhealthful stimulants.
Excitement is pleasurable under every sky and in every age, men have sought it.
The Chinaman gets it by smoking his opium, the Persian by chewing hashish, the trapper in a buffalo hunt, the sailor in a squall, the inebriate in the bottle.
and the avaricious at the gaming table.
We must at times have excitement.
A thousand voices in our nature demand it.
It is right and
It is healthful but
It is in spiriting in
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