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• If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the… — Honore de Balzac
• Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the… — W. W. Rouse Ball
• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,… — Benjamin Franklin
• One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers… — Samuel Johnson
• I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had… — Marcel Proust
• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack… — Michel Foucault
• Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a… — Thomas Jefferson
• America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we… — Billy Graham
• My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that… — Albert Einstein
• The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements. — Plutarch
• The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares,… — Isaac D'Israeli

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