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...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.
One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.
