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 1 Pref  |       than so to discourse of trifles as a man may seem to have
 2 Praise|     empty notions and curious trifles, yet teach them nothing
 3 Praise|  undertake it for I know what trifles, especially when both parties
 4 Praise|    does Homer, that father of trifles, dissent from me; who not
 5 Praise|       if not worse than those trifles they boast of. And yet by
 6 Praise| knowing that the vainer those trifles are, the higher esteem they
 7 Praise|      infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle
 8 Praise|  taken up with these pleasant trifles that they have not so much
 9 Praise|    not regarding any of these trifles, will call them to account
10 Praise|  petty ceremonies, ridiculous trifles, and noise exercise a kind