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Updated: June 11, 2025
"A gambler not a petty cheater in cards, but a man who has a splendid establishment in which he has amassed a fortune, a man known for his liberality and good-fellowship and his interest in politics offered the president of a leading college a hundred thousand dollars to endow a professorship. Ought the president to take the money, knowing how it was made?"
Winnie and then his brother warned him that he must avoid playing with a certain aristocratic dame whom he met in this most aristocratic household because she was such a notorious cheater!
It has been brought to my attention, by those who have read the story, that "Despoilers of the Golden Empire" might conceivably be charged with being a "reader cheater" i.e., that it does not play fair with the reader, but leads him astray by means of false statements. Naturally, I feel it me bounden duty to refute such scurrilous and untrue affronts, and thus save meself from opprobrium.
For we are maintaining all the grants made by Caesar; and men of praetorian rank, Philadelphus Annius, and that innocent Gallius; and men of aedilitian rank, he on whom I have spent so much of my lungs and voice, Bestia, and that patron of good faith and cheater of his creditors, Trebellius, and that bankrupt and ruined man Quintus Caelius, and that support of the friends of Antonius Cotyla Varius, whom Antonius for his amusement caused at a banquet to be flogged with thongs by the public slaves.
Ben Jonson proudly points to himself as having never done such mischief: 'For my particular, I can, and from a most clear conscience, affirm that I have ever trembled to think toward the least profaneness. Though he says he cannot wholly escape 'from some the imputation of sharpness, he does not feel guilty of having offered insult to anyone, 'except to a mimic, cheater, bawd, or buffoon. But 'I would ask of these supercilious politics, what nation, society, or general order of state I have provoked? ... What public person?
A man that is a thief, a cheater, a defrauder, will yet be faithful to him that will commit a charge to him to keep. And the reason is, because, though he can steal, cheat, defraud, without being taken notice of; yet he must be seen and known, if he be false in that which is committed to him to keep.
If it hurts him he is a cheater; if it doesn't hurt him always remember that you are a lady. When you are dummy the new rules permit you to call a revoke. When you see your partner messing up a sure "going-outer" you may also call the police; then get out your calling cards and call your partner down, being, of course, particular and ladylike in your selection of adjectives.
He cost me the fifty-dollar prize, and, beside that, all the kids in the village now call me 'cheater, and hardly anybody will have anything to do with me." "Well, how do you propose to get even by going camping?" inquired Bill. "I plan to take that Digby kid with me," rejoined Jack calmly. "You're crazy!" exclaimed Bill. "Why, we'd have the whole country after us for kidnapping."
"Now don't begin on the Old Home stuff," he replied, testily. "I haven't changed any more than you have. Why, ma used to think you'd play dead or jump through whenever she snapped her finger, but you're getting tough-bitted. You're getting sanctimonious in your old age. Where you got it from I don't know not from ma, surely, nor from dad; he's a cheater and always has been." "Oh, you know it.
For gold, his sword the hireling ruffian draws; For gold, the hireling judge distorts the laws; Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth, nor safety buys; And dangers gather as the treasures rise." And at every one of these dens, what a crowd of victims were collected! "A motley company indeed black-legs, and would-be-gentlemen the cheater and the cheated."
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