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1 " It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling... "
― V.S. Naipaul , Magic Seeds
2 " What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic -- of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever. "
― Robert Farrar Capon
3 " Everybody has asked the question. . ." What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! "
4 " The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? "
― William Makepeace Thackeray , Vanity Fair
5 " Dork," I chastised affectionately. But his cheesy exclamation was something I was okay with. I smiled up at him. His hazels danced with mischief. " Okay," I agreed. The mischief turned to triumph.Damn those magic eyes! "
6 " I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. "
― Michael J. Sullivan , Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1)
