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Playing cards have suffered a distinctly uneven respectability in their short but fascinating history. Starting in the hands of the common people, and finding themselves co-opted into the service of divination, the conservative wealthy were unwilling to accept them as anything but a vulgar pastime and an evil influence. Periodically, there were even calls for the complete banishment of playing cards from various kingdoms, and the clergy regularly preached against them. |
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Only $25.00 MSRP
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Of course, at one time Scotland tried to ban golf, because it was distracting men from the more manly arts of archery and fencing, and we all know how that came out. So it was with cards, which survived all these attacks quite unscathed. Eventually a kind of truce was worked out - it's all right to curse the effects cards can have, drawing people down into dissipation and bankruptcy, but you can't blame the cards themselves any more.
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