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«The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.»
«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»
Author: Beverly Jones | About: Romance | Keywords: amusement, circles, elusive, fake, rabbit, track
«Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement»
Author: George Bancroft | About: Truth | Keywords: amusement, The characters
«The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.»
«Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.»
«The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.»
«To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.»
«To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.»
«Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.»
«The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company»

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