amuse oneself
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"There are better ways to amuse oneself than by being a movie star," Fedora pouts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One must amuse oneself somehow while the other man is at the table.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 by Various
True, their meetings were but childish play, but at the end of the enclosure, under the apple trees, there was a delightful nook where one could laugh and chat and amuse oneself at one's ease.
From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
They have scarcely wit enough to amuse oneself with.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
"Men to cross swords with, to amuse oneself with," I mused; "but dogs and horses to live with."
From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham