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Letter "T" » trifling
«Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.»
Author: Franklin Pierce
(President)
| Keywords:
animated, animates, discussion, frequently, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts, the discussion, trifling
«It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.»
«Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.»
«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»
«I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Johnson, Taverns, trifling
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidental, advantages, assist, assisted, assisting, assists, commonly, counsel, goodwill, harmony, influence, in harmony, in time, living substance, melodies, melody, practical, substance, substances, sufficient, trifled, trifling, utmost
«I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law; and, even then, if I could have been certain to haunt her - but I won't dwell upon these trifling family matters»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
blown, good day, haunt, in-law, Mother in Law, recollection, recollections, trifling
«A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
magnifies, magnifying, microscope, microscopes, The Microscope, trifled, trifling
«We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
banquet, banqueting, banquets, trifling
«If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attentions, ceremony, coldness, neglect, paying, treated, trifling
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