Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our mi… - Hannah More

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Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Hannah More

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Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist.

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Pen Names: Will Chip

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Alexander Pope James Russell Lowell Joseph Addison John Dryden Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint!
And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. - Hannah More

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