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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

Pablo Picasso
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have a... by Oscar Wilde

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Oscar Wilde
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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.

Petrarch
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If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe tha... by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose a... by Publilius Syrus

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement?

Publilius Syrus
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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
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad... by Queen Victoria

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria
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It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

R. B. Braithwaite
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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.

Rachel Vincent
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Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

Robert Penn Warren
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My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

Robert Southey
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Samuel Richardson
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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.

Samuel Johnson
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Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Sarah Josepha Hale
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I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people fr... by Samuel Johnson

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Samuel Johnson
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Saul Bellow
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Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but... by Samuel Johnson

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Samuel Johnson
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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a liv... by Seneca the Younger

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Seneca the Younger
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The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souveni... by Stephanie Klein

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

Stephanie Klein
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