As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
There are lots of risks, but without risks, there's no reward. I think the reward is bigger than the risk.
People are used to dealing with risk.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
People need to learn to live with more risk.
People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
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