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— Gregory of Nazianzus"Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements."
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Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.
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