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As you go ahead the field of choice becomes more meager, in terms of self-entertainment.

From Time Magazine Archive

This supplementary course of self-improvement and self-entertainment had now continued for three years.

From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake

Happiness is the natural condition of every normal child, and if the small boy or girl has a peculiar facility for any one thing, it is for self-entertainment.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John

Her self-possession, her capacity for self-entertainment, the care she took not to arouse the others, all impressed him very much.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold

Winter drives a man back upon himself, and tests his powers of self-entertainment.

From Wake-Robin by Burroughs, John