"Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds."
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"I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice."
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"Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life."
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"The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit."
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"Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it."
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"If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself."
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"One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement."
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"Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent."
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"Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter."
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"We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields"
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"Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity."
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"She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability."
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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."
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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."
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"Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us."
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"The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
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"Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement."
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"Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute."
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"We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform."
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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."
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