#trifle

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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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. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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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. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#spiteful #trifle #would

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. ↗

— Thomas Day

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In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have nver met with such a thing as a trifle yet. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#importance #trifles #experience