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#trifle

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Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.


James Wolcott


#going #had #hair #hudson #insincere

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.


Homer


#others #precious #trifle #us

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.


Joseph Addison


#flowers #good #humanity #inconceivable #life

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.


Louis Agassiz


#intercourse #mind #nature #never #should

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.


Mark Akenside


#fantastic #imaginary #joys #painted #pursues

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.


Thomas Sprat


#great #life #married #married life #negligence

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.


Samuel Butler


#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible

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.


Lord Chesterfield


#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.


Charles Horton Cooley


#exert #fields #itself #life #likely

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.


Doris Lessing


#great people #important #important matters #mark #matters






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