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To a man of
pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not
of the vivacity of amusement.
-- Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist,
Poet, Statesman
If those who
are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of
the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the
former from the year, the latter from human life.
-- Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist
Amusement to
an observing mind is study.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
The
intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily
amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and
the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and
badge.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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Cards were at
first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave
the mind.
-- David Garrick
1717-1779, British Actor,
Playwright, Theater Manager
The only way
to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
-- Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American
Journalist, Author
You can't live
on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and
then the mud.
-- George Macdonald
1824-1905, Scottish Novelist
When I play
with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself
with me more than I with her.
-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French
Philosopher, Essayist
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