Courtin's manual of etiquette of 1671 explains: "These little people are allowed to amuse themselves without anyone troubling to s...ee whether they are behaving well or badly; they are permitted to do as they please; nothing is forbidden them; they laugh when they ought to cry, they cry when they ought to laugh, they talk when they ought to be silent, and they are mute when good manners require them to replay. It is cruelty to allow them to go on living in this way. The parents say that when they are bigger they will be corrected. Would it not be better to deal with them in such a way that there was nothing to correct?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth man...ners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by hal...f-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but t...heir little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but t...heir little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle an...d amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will ...not use abstinence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with the ...person they love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated,... penniless boy, working on a flat boat--at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no instant of time when one creature is not being devoured by another. Over all these numerous races of animals man is pl...aced, and his destructive hand spares nothing that lives. He kills to obtain food and he kills to clothe himself; he kills to adorn himself; he kills in order to attack and he kills to defend himself; he kills to instruct himself and he kills to amuse himself; he kills to kill. Proud and terrible king, he wants everything and nothing resists him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »