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That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends (Mischief Quotes)
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many (Mischief Quotes)
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief (Mischief Quotes)
I hope to live long and be happy. But I’d like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief (Mischief Quotes)
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There’s more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too (Mischief Quotes)
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good (Mischief Quotes)
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought (Mischief Quotes)
We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it (Mischief Quotes)
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion (Mischief Quotes)
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves (Mischief Quotes)
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man’s mind, under the general head of liberty (Mischief Quotes)
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands (Mischief Quotes)
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing (Mischief Quotes)
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief (Mischief Quotes)
Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed (Mischief Quotes)
To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone (Mischief Quotes)
There is an unlucky tendency... to allow every new invention to add to life’s complications, and every new power to increase life’s hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better (Mischief Quotes)
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief (Mischief Quotes)
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception (Mischief Quotes)
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend (Mischief Quotes)
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster (Mischief Quotes)
What exists outside is a man’s concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors (Mischief Quotes)
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms (Mischief Quotes)
A little neglect may breed great mischief... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost (Mischief Quotes)
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit (Mischief Quotes)
The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom (Mischief Quotes)
The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims (Mischief Quotes)
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become (Mischief Quotes)
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence (Mischief Quotes)
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it (Mischief Quotes)