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«To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
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«If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Achievement
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exists, gain, hesitation, wager, wagered
«CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympian games:His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them.In the earth we here prepare a Place to lay our little Clara. --Thomas M. and Mary Frazer P.S. --Gabriel will raise her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Marriage
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as to, lay, Married Love, married woman, marry, wager, wagered
«When widows exclaim loudly against second marriage, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding-day, is absolutely fixed on.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
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exclaim, exclaimed, exclaiming, exclaims, loudly, wager, wagered, wedding day, widows