Amusement Quote by George Eliot

“He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .”

George Eliot

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

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Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…

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“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

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“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

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“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…

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Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

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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…

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I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through…

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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the…

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Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all…

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The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

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I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with…

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I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you…

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