#trifles

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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.


Lord Chesterfield


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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


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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

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


Samuel Johnson


#curiosity #diverted #emulation #great #knowledge

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


Arthur Schopenhauer


#shows #treatment #trifles

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


Arthur Schopenhauer


#character #guard #his #man #off

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.


Wallace Stevens


#fill #full #furniture #how #more

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


#austere #constant #ever #government #learned

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