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"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." »John Andrew Holmes
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"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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"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere." »Magha
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"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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"Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things." »La Rochefoucauld
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"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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"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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