Trifles Quotes
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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
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Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.
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Men are led by trifles.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
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. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.
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I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world — Death is only an incident in Life.
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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
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I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
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One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.
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My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
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It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.
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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.
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Trifles, trifles are what matter!
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Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
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Men are lead by trifles.
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.
