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“It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.”
Neil Gaiman
Death
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Humor
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Afterlife
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Fantasy
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Mischief
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“Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.”
John Grisham
Literature
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Inspiration
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Mischief
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Childhood
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Literary Influence
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“Mother, the tutor has come, and I have such a bad headache; couldn't I have no lessons to-day?" I hope no child of immature age will be allowed to read this story, and I sincerely trust it will not be used in text-books or primers for junior classes. For what I did was dreadfully bad, and I received no punishment whatever. On the contrary, my wickedness was crowned with success.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Childhood
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Mischief
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Education
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Punishment
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Unexpected Success
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“Either you have work or you have not. When you have to say, “Let us do something,” then begins mischief.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Work
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Action
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Intention
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Mischief
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Productivity Dynamics
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“Where cheating is, there's mischief there.”
William Blake
Deception
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Mischief
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Morality
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Philosophical Observation
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Human Nature
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Cautionary Wisdom
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“The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.”
Orson Scott Card
Creation
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Individuality
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Mischief
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Divine Humor
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Character
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Uniqueness
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“I think they are rising faster than they have any business, and that they would not be so black if they did not mean mischief.”
Alexandre Dumas
Rapid Ascent
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Hidden Motives
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Mysterious Intentions
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Rising Threat
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Ascent
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Mischief
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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
Abbey Stage
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Plaster Saints
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Raging Crowd
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Mischief
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Reflection
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Legacy
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“Dill if you don’t hush I’ll knock you bowlegged.”
Harper Lee
Teasing
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Mischief
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Childhood
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Humor
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Rebellion
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Discipline
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“Spring is the mischief in me.”
Robert Frost
Spring
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Mischief
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Nature
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Season
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Energy
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Reflection
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“Matilda said nothing. She simply sat there admiring the wonderful effect of her own handiwork. Mr Wormwood’s fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker’s tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season.”
Roald Dahl
Matilda’s Craft
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Hair Transformation
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Mischievous Action
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Matilda
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Hair
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Mischief
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“That brute you made me marry once hit the boy so hard he knocked out two of his baby teeth, over some mischief with a cat.”
George R. R. Martin
Brute
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Marriage
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Violence
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Family
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Abuse
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Mischief
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“When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.”
Malcolm Gladwell
Sports
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Writing
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Mischief
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Freedom
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Entertainment
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“Adventures only make you late for dinner.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure
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Humor
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Time
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Delay
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Mischief
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“If you’re referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Dragon
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Humor
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Mischief
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Involvement
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Adventure
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“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”
Dalai Lama
Mischief
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Humanity
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History
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Continuity
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Society
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“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately.”
Mark Twain
Prank
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Humor
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Friendship
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Mischief
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Trust
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“Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin’s sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Family
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Humor
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Parenting
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Mischief
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Reflection
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“Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down.”
William Shakespeare
Chaos
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Goblin
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Mischief
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Fear
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Repetition
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“And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.”
William Shakespeare
Smiling
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Deception
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Mischief
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Fear
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Appearance
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“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”
William Shakespeare
Mischief
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Action
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Fate
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Consequences
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Control
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