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Letter "A" » amusement
«While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Grief
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«While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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«Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Writing
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