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«Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?»
Author: Guy de Maupassant
| Keywords:
back and forth, darting, fascinating, hitting, lively, pleasing, seeming, touching, trifles
«Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand lucid in order, solid and at hand; spend not your words on trifles but condense; strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense; press to the close with vigor, once begun, and leave - how hard the task»
«Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.»
Author: Pope Paul VI
(Pope)
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
enlarging, heavenly, magnifies, magnifying, microscope, microscopes, monsters, telescope, telescopes, The Microscope, trifles
«Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.»
«A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles»
Author: Thomas Sprat
| Keywords:
embitter, embittered, embitters, negligence, originated, trifles, wretchedness
«Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues»
«Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Boston, nursery, principals, trifles
«Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
attentions, despised, disliked, failings, liked, neglected, nothings, respected, The General, trifles
«A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.»
«A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
snapper, trifles, unconsidered
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