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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.


George A. Smith


#make #man #often #position #trifle

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#details #detection #facts #importance #sherlock-holmes

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.


Philip Stanhope


#child #children #consults #does #flatters

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#desires #hath #limits #nature #none

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.


John Bright


#any #aware #compared #contributor #cotton

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.


Richard Burton


#dream #events #hazy #how #important

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.


Queen Victoria


#events #great #irritate #make #me

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.


George Chapman


#shun #shuns #trifles #world

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






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