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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns. - Honore de Balzac In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, What Will He Do With It? (bk. III, heading to ch. XVII) What plaguy mischief and mishaps Do dog him still with after claps! - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 3) He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth. - William Camden The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief. - Demosthenes Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil. - Aaron Hill She who means no mischief does it all. - Aaron Hill Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue. - Ben Jonson, Catiline (act III, sc. 3) Few men are so clever as to know all the mischief they do. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld When to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find it instruments of ill. - Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock (canto III, st. 125) The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii) To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Duke of Venice at I, iii) O mischief, thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i) The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. [Fr., L'occasion de faire du mal se trouve cent fois par jour, et celle de faire du bien une fois dans l'annee.] - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Zadig
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