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• And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Farewell, Leisure

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• There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Calling, Shallow

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following the Equator”, p.72, Trajectory Inc

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• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

  Jane Austen

  Dresses, Literature, Solicitude

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1560, Wildside Press LLC

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• Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Taxation, Regulation

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• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  Imelda Marcos

  Looks, Faces, Settling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  Imelda Marcos

  Country, Book, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Editing, Phases

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• So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

  Mike Huckabee

  Real, Home, Issues

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• Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Moving, Fall

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.113, Modern Library

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• We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Meaningful, Profound, Goal

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• There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

  Albert Camus

  Creating, Talent, Produce

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

  Edith Wharton

  Dramatic, Significance, Acquire

  Edith Wharton, Janet Beer (2002). “The House of Mirth”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.

  Dean Koontz

  Stars, Silly, Who I Am

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• How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

  Margaret Atwood

  Age, Bags, Mouths

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• Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Sight, Cynical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

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• If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

  Saul Griffith

  Rights, Two, Design

  "Built to Last". Good Magazine Interview, www.good.is. January 14, 2010.

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• Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.

  David Lehman

  Hands, Your Side, Ideas

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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• I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.

  Taylor Momsen

  Stuff, Fields, Not Interested

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• I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Past, Survival

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4860, Delphi Classics

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• The fact that oppressive and corrupt regimes can borrow money in the name of the whole country means that the country's future generations will be weighed down by interest and repayment burdens, even if the money has been frittered away in some frivolous way, embezzled or used for weapons to suppress the country's population.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Mean, Names

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

  Ellen G. White

  Christian, Prayer, People

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• My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Children, Sensual, Adults

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• Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Would Be, Matter

  BERNARD MALAMUD (1979). “DUBLIN'S LIVES”

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• To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wish, Firsts, Serious

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• I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Father, Book

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