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Warning on gambling’s ruin amid religious fervor and poetry
A lengthy admonition against gambling in all forms condemns stock games, racing and lotteries while citing historical figures and literary allusions. It warns of ruinous losses, moral decay, and enlists religious exhortations to seek honest work and virtue, ending with a call to avoid “forbidden honey” and pursue piety.
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Olive Goldsmith
Gibbon
Charles Vox
Unitud
Fies
Jonathan
Ibd
Switzerland
Lit
David
Hesiod
Fife
Grace
Vevey Shelley
Queen Mab
Shelley
Rowland Hill
Surrey Chapel
Goliad
Italy
Mediterranean
Shelly
Popy
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