#trifles

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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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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