I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. ✨ …

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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. ✨ Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. ✨ Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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