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gamble

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1. gamble - Noun

2. gamble - Verb

3. Gamble - Proper noun

Meaning

To play or game for money or other stake.

To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. H. G. Wells

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy. Anthony Bourdain

To gamble as the dice fall. Japanese Proverb

He who can persuade someone not to gamble has earned money for him. Chinese Proverb

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