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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And though you bind him with cables, they would part like thread, and though you fasten him seven times round with chains, they would snap like rusted wire, and though you piled up in his path heaven high, Bibles, tracts, and sermons, and on the top should set the cross of the Son of God.
Over them all the gambler would leap like a row over the rocks on his way to perdition.
Again, this sin works ruin by killing industry.
A man used to reaping scores or hundreds of dollars from the gaming table will not be content with slow work.
He will say What is the use of trying to make these fifty dollars in my store when I can get five times that in half an hour down at Billy's and
You never knew a confirmed gambler who was industrious.
The men given to this vice spend their time not actively employed in the game in idleness or intoxication or sleep or in corrupting new victims.
This sin has dulled the carpenter's saw and cut the band.
Of the factory wheel, sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the farmer's harrow, and sent a strange lightning to shatter the battery of the philosopher.
The very first idea in gaming is at war with all the industries of society.
Any trade or occupation that is of use is ennobling.
The street sweeper advances the interests of society by the cleanliness affected.
The cat pays for the fragments it eats by clearing the house of vermin.
The fly that takes the sweetness from the dregs of the cup compensates.
compensates by purifying the air and keeping back the pestilence.
But the gambler gives not anything for that which he takes for
I recall that sentence, he does make a return, but it is disgrace to the man that he fleeces, despair to his heart, ruin to his business, anguish to his wife, shame to his children, and eternal wasting away to his soul.
He pays in tears and blood and agony and darkness and woe.
What dull work is ploughing to the farmer that
When in the village saloon, in one night, he makes and loses the value of a summer harvest?
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