A Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it.
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.
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