Lucretia B
speaker
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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It is a desire God given, but anything that first gratifies this appetite and hurls it back in a terrific reaction is deplorable and wicked.
Look out for the agitation that, like a rough musician, in bringing out the tune, plays so hard he breaks down the instrument.
God never made man strong enough to endure the wear and tear of gambling excitement.
No wonder if, after having failed in the game, men have begun to sweep off imaginary gold from the side of the table.
The man was sharp enough when he started at the game, but a maniac at the close, and
At every gaming table sit on one side ecstasy, enthusiasm, romance, the frenzy of joy, on the other side fierceness, rage, and tumult.
The professional gamester schools himself into apparent quietness.
The keepers of gambling rooms are generally
Fat, rollicking, and obese, but thorough and professional gamblers in nine cases out of ten are pale, thin, wheezing, tremulous, and exhausted.
A young man having suddenly aired a large property.
Sits at the hazard table and takes up in a dice box the estate won by a father's lifetime sweat and shakes it and tosses it away.
Intemperance soon stigmatizes its victim, kicking him out, a slavering fool into the ditch.
or sending him with the drunkard's hiccup staggering up the street where his family lives.
But gambling does not in that way expose its victims.
The gambler may be eaten up by the gambler's passion, yet only discover it by the greed in his eyes, the hardness of his features, the nervous restlessness, the threadbare coat, and his embarrassed business.
Yet he is on the road to hell, and no preacher's voice or startling warning.
king or wife's entreaty.
it can make him stay for a moment his headlong career.
The infernal spell is on him, and
A giant is aroused within.
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