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Amusement
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The long rains were worse this year than most, and to get through the endless wet the ladies amused themselves day and night with illustrated tales.
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― The Tale of Genji
― The Tale of Genji
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Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking effect, but most of his life he lived quietly with Xanthippe, taking a constitutional in the afternoon, and perhaps meeting with a few friends by the way. Kant is said never to have been more than ten miles from Konigsberg in all his life. Darwin, after going round the world, spent the whole rest of his life in his own house. Marx, after stirring up a
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Welcome to Camp Half-Blood. You are half-mortal half-god. This is a safe haven for demi-gods. So…more
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