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• My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.

  Deborra-Lee Furness

  Sweet, Ice Cream, Chocolate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Fool, Wells

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• There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

  Roger L'Estrange

  May, Littles, Too Much

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• Nothing is small or great in God's sight. Whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trifling; and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.

  Jean Grou

  Voice, Sight, Importance

  Jean Nicolas Grou (1876). “The hidden life of the soul [by J.N. Grou]. From the Fr. by the author of A Dominican artist”, p.206

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• So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Children, Men, Reflection

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.95, Broadview Press

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• Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Treasure, Life Is

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• Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables.

  John Adams

  Children, Land, Two

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.8

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• Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

  John Bright

  War, Loss, Years

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Battle, Cost, Drizzle

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1965). “The eye: a novel”

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• Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

  Edward Young

  Life, Thinking, Years

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• Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

  John Locke

  Children, Silly, Curiosity

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• Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

  George A. Smith

  Power, Men, Position

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• So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

  William Morris

  Art, Lying, Hate

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

  John Paul Jones

  America, Honor, Lays

  "Rare letters from father of US Navy surface in South Carolina". www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2013.

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• Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Speeches on various occasions”, p.108

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• Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Children, Mistake

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

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• God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Practice, Justice, Forever

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.95, Fig

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• A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Letting Go, Wise, Men

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• Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Want, Found

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.396

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• There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.

  Francois Fenelon

  Real, Views, Mind

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• Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Littles, Ruins, Little Things

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

  Gail Carriger

  Appreciate, Perfection, Kind

  Gail Carriger (2013). “Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

  Martin Luther

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

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• You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Silence, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

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• When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Water, World

  Mark Twain, Dixon Wecter, Mary Mason Fairbanks (1949). “Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks”, San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library

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