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“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”

Mean Individual Nations Sports Wonder England Train Western Tiny Toys Passengers Insufficient Indignant Locomotives

Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

“The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.”

Men Character Sports Laughing Effects Command Consideration Toys

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!”

Sports Talent Duty Mere Toys

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.”

People Heart Jobs Sports Worship Satisfaction Supreme Guilty Leisure Toys Prestige Heart Ache

Author:John Piper