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“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.” Plato, The Republic
“Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us?” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Reading was the only amusement I allow'd myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continu'd as indefatigable as it was necessary.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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