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 | "I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king"s household to amuse the
court by ludicrous actions and utterances ... the king"s own conduct and
decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his
court but of all mankind." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Prayer is not an old woman"s idle amusement. Properly understood and
applied, it is the most potent instrument of action." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and
never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters,
keeps us running and thinking in safe circles." | |
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Beverly Jones
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| "The real character of a man is found out by his amusements." | |
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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| "There are people who have money and people who are rich." | |
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Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
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| "True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the
body; the two are ever united." | |
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
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| "We are not amused." | |
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Queen Victoria
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| "When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more
sport than she makes me? When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a
pastime to her more than she is to me? When I play with my cat, who knows
if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?" | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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