#divert

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking. ↗

— Phaedrus

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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage. ↗

— Orville Redenbacher

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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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