Quotes: Trifles
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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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.
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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.
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Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
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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.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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