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“He quickly observed, that good sentences and excellent representations of the follies of mankind met with little regard or applause, whilst sounds, without sense, threw every body into raptures:but...”
“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add ple...”
“Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.”
“I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.”
“When mind stuck, entertain your heart.”
“For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?”
“If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.”
“As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.”
“Work hard in Silence, Let success make the noise.”
“Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies”
“One of your friends may bored , one may tiered , one may feared , what you have to do is to make them entertained , if you can't do it , make them active , if you fail again make a small smile in f...”
“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”
“A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.”
“He left not knowing where he was going, he got there not knowing where he was, and he came back not knowing where he had been. But history books will point out Columbus as the person who made the A...”
“Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.”
“My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at o...”
“...but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didnt come with complications.”
“So many people have the TV or radio constantly turned on "for company," or spend their time reading trashy novels, aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on. Then suddenly one day you are old or sick an...”
“...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...”
“They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.”
