"The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon." - Douglas William Jerrold

 

"With most men life is like 

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backgammon - half skill and half 

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luck." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers." - Chelsea Clinton

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong." - Henry David Thoreau

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(When contemplating taking a double) "Capitulation is not a disgrace. A general can do no more entertain the idea of fighting to the last man than a good backgammon player would consider playing an obviously lost game." - Baron Carl von Clausewitz

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