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• Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

  Henry Kirke White

  Cheer, Companion, Solace

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• A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Amused, Nations

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• I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.

  Emo Philips

  Jobs, Couple, Parks

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• Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Reading, Gardening, Next

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.376

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• I'm horrible at these things, 'cause I'm a horrible date.What's a good date? A nice dinner and a movie? I don't know. What are dates? An amusement park? What am I supposed to say? Hmm. I have no idea.

  Drake Bell

  Nice, Ideas, Dinner

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music.

  Aulus Cornelius Celsus

  Music, Fitness, Running

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• The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

  Aristotle

  Life, Inspire, Excellence

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

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• I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Past, Survival

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4860, Delphi Classics

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• Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

  Plato

  Education, Plato, Able

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.32, University Press of America

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• The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Genius, Care

  "Literary Character of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XVI, 1795-1822.

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• The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Ruins

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• I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.'

  Savannah Guthrie

  Inspirational, Iphone, Empowering

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• Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Dying, Impermanence

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• I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Character, Talking

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• I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Loss, Literature

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• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fall, Heart, Men

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• What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Flower, Home, Animal

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• Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Football, Player, Boredom

  "The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states".

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• Every man alone is sincere.
  At the entrance of a second person,
  hypocrisy begins.
  We parry and fend the approach
  of our fellow-man by compliments,
  by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
  We cover up our thought from him
  under a hundred folds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gossip, Hypocrisy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  Michel Foucault

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

  John Herschel

  Class, Ideas, Dancing

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Give me the effing phone, Strider grumbled, opening his palm and waving his fingers. Effing? William laughed with genuine amusement. You ever realize how polite you get when you're hammered? And you know what they say. A man's true charactor is revealed when he's toasted. So you gotta face facts, man. You're a closet gentlmen. Loser! The heck I am! Even Paris laughed at that.

  Gena Showalter

  Men, Phones, Paris

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Country, Men

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• ...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Science, Overcoming, Biographies

  Gilbert Burnet (1745). “An Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England”, p.176

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• ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

  Edith Wharton

  Intuition, Want, Get Away

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.2, VM eBooks

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