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In a lottery in which no prize exceeded twenty pounds, though in

other respects it approached much nearer to a perfectly fair one

than the common state lotteries, there would not be the same

demand for tickets. In order to have a better chance for some of

the great prizes, some people purchase several tickets; and

others, small shares in a still greater number. There is not,

however, a more certain proposition in mathematics, than that the

more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you are to be a

loser. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you

lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets, the

nearer you approach to this certainty.