"The world loves to be amused by hollow……" — William Hazlitt

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree… — Honore de Balzac
• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,… — W. E. B. Du Bois
• You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience,… — Giacomo Casanova
• I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they… — Leonard Cohen
• Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this… — H.G. Wells
• 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… — Granville Penn
• 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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