| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45492 |
| QUOTATION: | He was ... a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and Ill show you a loser, show me a hero and Ill show you a corpse. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mario Puzo (b. 1920), U.S. novelist. Fools Die, ch. 2 (1978).
Referring to Jordan Hawley. |
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