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How to use the word trifling in a Sentence?

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False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

– Cesare Beccaria

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1 year ago

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

– Franklin Pierce

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7 years ago

Regrettably, the media campaign in the past few weeks over this report is a clear attempt to topple the prime minister and the Likud government by trifling with petty issues and distracting voters.

– The Likud party

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9 years ago

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

– Magha

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12 years ago

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or enthusiastic shape or other; else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest.

– Burke

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12 years ago

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things.

– La Rochefoucauld

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14 years ago

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

– Mark Twain

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14 years ago

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

– John Andrew Holmes

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14 years ago

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

– William Hazlitt

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14 years ago

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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14 years ago

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

– Laertius Diogenes

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14 years ago

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