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The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

William Blackstone

Liberty, Matter, Criminals

Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee (1861). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work”

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In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.

Ally Carter

Couple, Eye, Past

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He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

Horace

Hay, Horns, Persons

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Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement.

Henry Calvert Simons

Book, Irritation, Idols

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So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.

R. K. Laxman

Cartoon, Sides, Serious

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What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

Obert Skye

Eye, Winter, Hungry

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It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic, but refuses to come in Hebrew. To some extent I made up my Hebrew. Unquestionably, the influence of Arabic is dominant, my syntax is almost Arabic.

Sami Michael

Writing, Syntax, Hebrew

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I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses." He considered me a moment, a mischievous light creeping into his eyes, and said: "Was THAT the dress - that night you wouldn't come out of your room?" I grinned and nodded, and we both laughed.

Robin McKinley

Eye, Night, Light

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My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
"This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,
"Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

William Butler Yeats

Beautiful, Father, Land

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even devilish. Barbapoppa was the most fabulous first animal I was to have and challenged me much.

Chantal Sutherland

Animal, Age, Fabulous

"Inside the Jockeys' Room with Gary and Chantal". America's Best Racing Interview, www.americasbestracing.net. January 24, 2014.

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When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

Henry Fielding

Jealousy, Passion, Female

Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1250, Delphi Classics

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He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina.

Victoria Hanley

Ocean, Princess, Sadness

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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

Seneca the Younger

Kindness, Grateful, Men

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Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state to sidetrack us." He brushed his fingers againist the lacings of her neck. "Isn't it time you returned that shirt to its owner?

Julia Golding

Eye, Long, Wife

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It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other... Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

Jonathan Rauch

Hate, Confused, Law

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Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

Kami Garcia

Luck, Beginners, Faces

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Heroes are a mischievous race.

Jeremy Collier

Hero, Race

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Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.

Rebecca West

Book, Doctors, Years

Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.

Dave Matthews

Fall, Looks, Ifs

"Song: 'Seek Up'". 1999.

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Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?"

Plutarch

People, Opinion, Said

"Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 55 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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We can't blame the entire Muslim society because of the mischievous acts of a few individuals. Therefore, at the general public level we must cultivate the notion of not just one religion, one truth, but pluralism and many truths. We can change the atmosphere, and we can modify certain ways of thinking.

Dalai Lama

Thinking, Atmosphere, Levels

Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

Mr. T

Mother, Men, Robins

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Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God.

William Wilberforce

Guilt, True Or False, Criminals

William Wilberforce (1820). “Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...”, p.135

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I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.

Woody Harrelson

Real, Boys, House

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And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.

Gilbert Blane

Art, Medicine, Differences

Gilbert Blane (1821). “Elements of Medical Logick”, p.10

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