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...словами Марка Твена полуторавековой давности:

I never saw anything so curious. It is almost an exact epitome of my own moral career—after simply substituting a grandmother for a mother. ...
She asked me not to gamble. She whispered and said, “Put up those wicked cards this minute!—two pair and a jack, you numskull, and the other fellow’s got a flush!”

I never have gambled from that day to this—never once—without a “cold deck” in my pocket. I cannot even tell who is going to lose in games that are being played unless I deal myself.

 

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, 1870