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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
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It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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.
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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
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The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
Engleby (2007)
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