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Solitaire
games, also known as Patience in Britain, are card games for a single
player. Does not exist a precise history of solitaires, but it is probable
that solitaires are been born with the card games. The word solitaire
is of French origin, and it means patience. It must but wait for the
age of Napoleon (is said Napoleon to have played a lot of solitaire) to see
a true development of the solitarie games. The first book on the argument
comes printed in 1870. It was Illustrated Games of Patience by lady
Adelaide Cadogan, containing 25 games, reprinted many times. In the U.S. mrs
E.D. Cheney published the successive year the book Patience. The
publishing house Dick & Fitzgerald in New York published in 1883 a
series of books dedicated to solitaire games ("Dick's Games of
Patience") and a second series was published in 1898. In the 1890's a
great populariser of the game was Miss Whitemore Jones, whose 5 volumes on
solitaires went reprint for thirty years.
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Solitaires
"have a marvelous capacity both to soothe and challenge the mind
of the player" (Trevor Day and The Diagram Group, Collins Gem
Patience Card Games, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996, ISBN
0004720164, p. 3)
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"Patience
is the mental equivalent of jogging: its purpose is to tone the brain up
and get rid of unsociable mental flabbiness." (David Parlett, The
Penguin Book of Patience, Penguin Books, 1980, ISBN 0140463461, p.
11)
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"It
has many virtues, not the last being that it teaches one the
self-discipline of being honest with oneself." (George F. Hervey, The
illustrated Book of Card Games for One, ISBN 0890091137, p. 7)
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