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We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields

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Pity swells the tide of love.

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I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

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It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

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