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a trifle

«Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.»
«Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.»
«A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.»
«The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.»
Author: Homer | About: Charity | Keywords: a trifle, charity, trifle
«Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.»
«His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.»
«Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Expectation | Keywords: a trifle, trifle, wearer, wearers
«Better own a trifle than want a great deal.»
Author: Irish Proverb | Keywords: a trifle, trifle
«Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.»