Gambling, Evil Effects of

Illustration★★★

No passion can lead to such extremities, nor involve a man in such a complicated train of crimes and vices, and ruin whole families so completely, as the baneful rage for gambling. It produces and nourishes all imaginable disgraceful sensations; it is the most fertile nursery of covetousness, envy, rage, malice, dissimulation, falsehood, and foolish reliance on blind fortune; it frequently leads to fraud, quarrels, murder, forgery, meanness, and despair; and robs us in the most unpardonable manner of the greatest and most irrecoverable treasure—time.

— Knagge

The point

Gambling breeds vice, ruins families, and steals away the irrecoverable treasure of time.

Tone

Cautionary · Somber

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under a minute · 87 words

Subjects

Gambling Addiction Vice Time

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