To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
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Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.
Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.
Only a very base person forgets when he is done some shame or mischief.
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.
He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.
Five kinds of animals are mischief-doers and can be killed even in the Sanctuary: They are the rat, the scorpion, the kite, the crow and the rabid dog.
Oh, Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!
But when mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.
O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
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