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How to use the word trifle in a Sentence?

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

– Alexander Pope

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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

– Dwight L. Moody

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Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

– Michelangelo

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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

– Homer

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Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.

– Saadi Shirazi

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13 years ago

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One 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

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Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle.

– Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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14 years ago

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

– George Crabbe

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14 years ago

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

– E. B. White

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14 years ago

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