"I played Chess with him and would..." - Quote by Mark Twain
I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently
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“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.”
“The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.”
“Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
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“Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.”
“I thought I'd go to a craft fair, and there would be a jar of jellybeans there - "Guess how many jellybeans are in this jar, and win a prize". Aw, come on, man, let just me have some. I'll tell you what, guess how many jellybeans I want! If you guessed a handful, you are right.”
“Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money”
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“If you're going to cheat, it's better if you don't get caught.”
“The worst possible way a relationship can end is when somebody cheats on somebody else.”
“I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.”