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How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man`s life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

- Richard Burton

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

- Victor Hugo

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

- George Chapman

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

- Julia Ward Howe

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

- Queen Victoria

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

- Aimee Litka

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

- Alan Feldman

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

- Amanya Mushega

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

- Amanya Mushega

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

- George Gurdjieff

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

- Michelangelo