This general attachment of a monied victory to cards is productive frequently of evil.

It generates often improper feelings.

It gives birth to uneasiness and impatience, while the contest is in doubt, and not unfrequently to anger and resentment, when it is over.
But the passions, which are thus excited among youth, are excited also, but worked up to greater mischief, where grown up persons follow these amusements imprudently, than where children are concerned.

For though avarice, and impatience, and anger, are called forth among children, they subside sooner.

A boy, though he loses his all when he loses his stake, suffers nothing from the idea of having impaired the means of his future comfort, and independence.