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Ace" Shaw

by Edgar Lee Masters, 1916

I never saw any difference
Between playing cards for money
And selling real estate,
Practicing law, banking, or anything else.
For everything is chance.
Nevertheless
Seest thou a man diligent in business?
He shall stand before Kings!

Published in Spoon River Anthology
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