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mischievous
«As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
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Constitution
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deem, in writing, justified, mischievous, notions
«It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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aped, apes, aping, base, disturbs, mischievous, ravenous, savage, selfish, The Vulture, unjust, vulture, wolves
«Newspaper correspondents with an army, as a rule, are mischievous. They are the world's gossips, pick up and retail the camp scandal, and gradually drift to the headquarters of some general, who finds it easier to make reputation at home than with his own corps or division. They are also tempted to prophesy events and state facts which, to an enemy, reveal a purpose in time to guard against it. Moreover, they are always bound to see facts colored by the partisan or political character of their own patrons, and thus bring army officers into the political controversies of the day, which are always mischievous and wrong. Yet, so greedy are the people at large for war news, that it is doubtful whether any army commander can exclude all reporters, without bringing down on himself a clamor that may imperil his own safety. Time and moderation must bring a just solution to this modern difficulty.»
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman
(General)
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against the rules, army officer, at large, camp, clamor, clamoring, colored, commander, controversies, corps, correspondent, correspondents, division, doubtful, drift, Enemy of the state, exclude, gossips, greedy, headquarters, home rule, imperil, imperiled, imperils, mischievous, moreover, officers, partisan, partisans, patrons, pick up, prophesy, Reporters, retail, retailing, scandal, tempted
«The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.»
«Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Goodness,
Virtue
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dignities, mischievous
«Bad theaters are as mischievous as bad schools.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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mischievous, schools, theaters
«Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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disastrous, feeding, mischievous, pressing, sawdust, unwholesome
«Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Children
| Keywords:
Boys and Girls, handicraft, handicrafts, mischievous
«There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Aristocracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, artificial, ascendancy, birth, founded, ingredient, mischievous, prevent, provisions, talents, virtue, wealth
«How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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horrible, hypocrite, inexpressible, malignant, meanness, mischievous