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QUOTATION:When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
ATTRIBUTION:Henry Fielding (1707–1754), British novelist, dramatist. Quoting “a wise old gentleman,” in Tom Jones, bk. 15, ch. 2 (1749).
 
 
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