Never think![54] Know! Leave thinking to the Teuton:
“A Briton knows, or if he knows it not,
He ought.”—Cowper.
After the game has begun, the time for thinking has passed: as soon as a card is led it is the time for action, the time to bring to bear your previously acquired knowledge.
LECTURE XI.
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THINKING.
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“With some unmeaning thing, that they call thought.”—Pope.
“Think, and die.”—Shakespeare.