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  ...she has. She's the most particular old darling about little things that you ever saw. Now those sandwiches I made I will admit were not cut very evenly, but, dear me! they tasted good enough. Tom Canton ate six. I told her so, but she said they should have looked good, too."
"Well, what's her hobby?"
"I just told you. It's trifles. She says life is made of them, and trifles with the rough edges polished off make beautiful lives. And she loves to quote such things as, Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.   ' She says trifles decide almost everything for us, and shape our characters. She says it is interesting to study how most big things grow from little ones.
"Helen, I think she's right." Mary's dark, thoughtful eyes looked into her friend's.
"O, I don't! It isn't trifles, trifles, that decide things and make the real difference. It is the big things. For instance, it is brother Tom's education in the school of technology that placed him in the responsible position we are all so proud...   Michelangelo

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