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Trifling Quotes by Mark Twain
- When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the…
- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly…
- I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
More Trifling Quotes
- When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if… — Daisaku Ikeda
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Lord Chesterfield
- Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature… — Henri Poincare
- Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster
- Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale
- I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on… — Hugo Grotius
- Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to… — Josei Toda
- Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive… — Jean de la Bruyere