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“A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.”

Men Life Circumstances Importance Neglect Pregnant Trifles Prudent

Author:Sophocles

“One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.”

Life Should Taken Importance Instance Too Short Trifles

Author:Nicolas Bentley

“Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.”

Knows Life Matter Teach Limitation Principal Trifles

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.”

Knows Life Mind Firsts Children Two Science Life Is Mistake Saws Ought Horror Scene Dear Trifles Arithmetic Lucy Cab

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“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.”

Thinking Life Looks Matter Results Offers Notes Rounds Satisfied Occasions Live Life Smallest Trifles

Author:Marcus Aurelius