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Antonius Block1 quote
Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957Benjamin Franklin1 quote
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1786William Hazlitt1 quote
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. — William Hazlitt · 1821