They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.
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Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.
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If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.
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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway.
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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.
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I wish all the foolish days of my life which I have spent at American watering-places thinking I was amused at five changes of dress a day, di...
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches a...
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I am always amused by Christians who try so very hard to defend their position with reason and logic. They are like standing on top of a ladder with their tools and gadgets, straining their necks looking skywards for the leaks, trying to fix the roof amidst the rain. What they do not realize, of course, is that the roof isn't leaking -- it isn't there.
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It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.
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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes...
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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
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The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
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Sweden's previous Minister of Justice amused the Americans on her visit. Her name is Gun Hellsvik, pronounced 'gun hells week'.
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I used to disgusted... now I'm just amused
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Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused.
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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
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Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
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