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• I've told you before,” he said huskily. “I'll take you however I can get you.” “Whatever. Don't think I don't know you're topping from the bottom.” His mouth curved with unapologetic amusement.

  Sylvia Day

  Thinking, Unapologetic, Mouths

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.201, Penguin

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• Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Nice, Mouths, Costumes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Hands, Trying

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale: The Conclusion to The New York Times Bestselling Hush, Hush Saga”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Callan took a deep breath. “I never expected you.” He shook his head with an edge of amusement. “You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler.” “Naw, just a determined woman.” She grinned against his shoulder. “I know a good thing when I see it jacking off.

  Lora Leigh

  Determined, Good Things, Shoulders

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• Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put alot of though into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off." I tapped my chin thoughtfully. "That just might be the best proposal I've had all night." "My offers are always the best, Angel.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Nice, Angel, Night

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine.

  Gena Showalter

  Hints, World, Favors

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• A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking, but her attention never shifted off the man who was a predator, for all that he wore human skin. When he peeled open and held out a bar of some kind, she took it, aware low energy levels could be dangerous when it came to her ability to keep a handle on the cold fire. "Thank you." A faint smile, a strange amusement in those icy eyes. "You're welcome." It was the most polite interaction they'd ever had.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• Why did the warrior cross the road? [Koldo] That’s easy. To kill the guy on the other side. [Nicola] A bud of amusement had her smiling. Knock, knock. [Koldo] Who’s there? [Nicola] Donut. Donut who? Donut run from me, puny girl.

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Running, Warrior

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• Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mean, Winning, Gambling

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.727, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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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 yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Illness, Retiring

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

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• The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Men, People

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• A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

  James Carlos Blake

  Blessed, Men, Laughing

  James Carlos Blake (2010). “Handsome Harry: A Novel”, p.80, Zondervan

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• How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.

  Donald Murray

  Writing, Tasks, Individual

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• The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Games, Chess Game, Mind

  François Danican Philidor, Sir William Jones, Benjamin Franklin (1824). “An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: Containing One Hundred Examples of Games and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions ; Including the Whole of Philidor's Analysis with Copious Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c”, p.237

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• America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Numbers, America

  Billy Graham (1995). “Billy Graham: The Inspirational Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Death, Believe, Tests

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.265, Delphi Classics

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• My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Despair, Serious

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• I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it'll never end! I accepted that a long time ago.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Whales, Tubs

  Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43

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• I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

  George Washington

  Hope, Peace, Retirement

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1796). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Zoos, Freedom, Political

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.365, Vintage

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• Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.

  Noah Webster

  Order, People, Dancing

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• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Jealous, Fighting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

  Lewis Black

  Struggle, Emotional, Giving

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