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When we trace to their source the most important circumstances of our life, in what trifles have they originated ! — a look, a word, are the ministers of fate. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. – James Henry Leigh Hunt	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo	added by anonymous 10 years ago
#3533. The law disregards trifles. – California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. – Queen Victoria, in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo Buonarroti	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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