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#trifles

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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

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#investigation #methods #mysteries #sherlock-holmes #trifles

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.


William Allingham


#attain #been #could #disproportionate #gravity

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.


Samuel Richardson


#different #manhood #only #our #proportioned

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.


Michelangelo


#make #perfection #trifle #trifles

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.


Alexander Smith


#human #human life #life #make #make up

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

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






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