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But so earnest and serious am I by nature, and so earnest and serious was he about those trivialities that he had been brought up to regard as the whole of life, that I had unconsciously absorbed his attitude; I was like a fellow who, after cramming hard for an examination, finds that all the questions put to him are on things he hasn't looked at.
Now look here; my friend, do you think that an organization like mine is made to bend to the trivialities of a copying clerk's work? To follow the humdrum of every-day routine? To blacken paper? To become a servant? me! with what I have in my brain?" "Oh, I know very well what is at the bottom of the business my aunt is jealous of me because I am a man of ideas.
She made a place for him on the sofa, and he sat down beside her. For some time they talked indifferently upon various matters the weather, the heat of the day, and like trivialities. Suddenly she turned upon him, and said, with ill-suppressed excitement: "What did you do with it, Elmer?" "Do with what?" "The picture." "Oh, yes the lantern slide. I wish I had never made it.
Wealth, too, what an endless repetition of the same foolish trivialities about it! Take the single fact of its alleged uncertain tenure and transitory character.
And what about a man that lets the myriad trivialities that make up a day pass in and out of his heart as they will, and never arrests any of them at the gate with a 'How camest thou in hither? 'Look after the pence, and the pounds will look after themselves. Look after your trivial acts, and, take my word for it, the great ones will be as they ought to be.
In fact, he considered that the only ace against him was Mrs. Wainwright. He had always regarded her as a stupid person, concealing herself behind a mass of trivialities which were all conventional, but he thought now that the more stupid she was and the more conventional in her triviality the more she approached to being the very ace of trumps itself.
"A vast number" of them assembled at the Coffee House in King Street, and chose selectmen and an orator, "who deliver'd an oration from the balcony to a crowd of few else beside gaping officers." Others of them caught a countryman who had been decoyed into buying a musket from a soldier, and tarred and feathered him. But these were surface trivialities.
There are many ways of getting a better focus, and ridding one's self of trivial annoyances. One is, to be quiet; get at a good mental distance. Be sure that you have a clear view, and then hold it. Always keep your distance; never return to the old stand-point if you can manage to keep away. We may be thankful if trivialities annoy us as trivialities.
Why have you avoided me so? Why have you made it so difficult for me to speak to you of anything but trivialities when you must know you must have known what I was longing to say?
Under his eye the trivialities of plough-making had become the details of a fine art. In the factory he never lost the air of command which inspires confidence. Foremen running into the office filled with excitement because of a break in the machinery or an accident to a workman returned to do his bidding quietly and efficiently.
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