Trifling Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
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Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
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Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.
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Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!
