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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
--George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
I think people would keep roulette tables more, so to speak, in the US if gambling weren't so heavily regulated here.