Rule number one: Throw in your cards the moment you know they can't win. Fold the hand.

Rounders

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Topic

Cutting your losses Playing cards Gambling

Speaker

Jo

Actor

Gretchen Mol

Source

Rounders

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Statement Type

Advice Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.

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This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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Topic
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Speaker
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Author

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
1616 1610s 17th century
Era
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 3.

Current Citation

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