“I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.”
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I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.
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