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Amusement
A slight touch of friendly malice
and amusement towards those
we love keeps our affections
for them from turning flat.
?Logan Pearsall Smith
You can't live on amusement.
It is the froth on water -- an
inch deep and then the mud.
?George MacDonald
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
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.
Properly understood and applied,
it is the most potent instrument of action.
?Mahatma Gandhi
Cards were at first for benefits designed,
sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
?David Garrick
A stereotyped but unconscious
despair is concealed even under
what are called the games and
amusements of mankind.
?Henry David Thoreau
Life would be tolerable
but for its amusements.
?George Bernard Shaw
The real character of a man is
found out by his amusements.
?Joshua Reynolds
