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«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.»
Author: Camilo Jose Cela
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administrative, a trifle, cases, cemeteries, chilly, disorder, disordered, filed, files, file in, filing, inhuman, mixed, Mixed Up, museums, neatness, trifle
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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allow for, as it were, a trifle, compromise, get on, sharp, trifle, tunes
«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»
«Better own a trifle than want a great deal.»
«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.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Perfection
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a trifle, ironies, trifle
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