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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Author:
Queen Victoria
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Author:
Michelangelo
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Author:
Doris Lessing
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Author:
Alexander Herzen
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
Author:
George Chapman
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Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Author:
Mark Akenside
