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• I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they… — Leonard Cohen
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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret… — Mary Wortley Montagu
• To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. — Charles Edward Montague
• To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the… — Benjamin Franklin
• I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse… — Aubrey Beardsley
• Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such… — Unknown Author
• The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be… — Larry Niven
• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one… — Arthur Rubinstein

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