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CARD-PLAYING.
Card-playing is now the conſtant amuſement, I may ſay employment, of young and old, in genteel life. After all the fatigue of the toilet, blooming girls are ſet down to card-tables, and the moſt unpleaſing paſſions called forth. Avarice does not wait for grey hairs and wrinkles, but marks a countenance where the loves and graces ought to revel. The hours that ſhould be ſpent in improving the mind, or in innocent mirth, are thus thrown away; and if the ſtake is not conſiderable enough to rouſe the paſſions, loſt in inſipidity, and a habit ac-
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