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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Born: Jun 24, 1842
Died: 1914

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Game, Man, Conviction, Enjoy, Table, Beating, He, Comfortable, Insurance, Permitted, Modern, Which, Ingenious, Who, Keeps, Player, Chance

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