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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Coups d'epingle. Policy of pin pricks. L. M. de la Haye—Vicomte de Cormenin. Des coups d'epee. . . Mais pas de coups d'epingle. A stroke of the sword. . . but not a pin prick. Daudet—Tartarin de Tarascon. Part of title of Ch. XI. Phrase at end of chapter. J'aime a rever, mais ne veux pas Qu'a coups d'epingle on me reveille. I love to dream, but do not wish To have a pin prick rouse me. As used by Jacques Delille—La Conversation, earlier than Daudet. Ce ne sont jamais les coups d'epingle qui decident de la fortune des Etats. It is never the pin pricks which decide the fortune of states. De Vergennes—Letter to D'AngiviUer. Aug. 11, 1777. w | seealso = (See also {{sc|Napoleon) Has nugae seria ducent In mala. These trifles will lead to serious mischief. Horace—Ars Poetica. 451. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line ujxm line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. XXVIII. 10. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. Isaiah. LX. 22. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Atque utinam his potius nugis tpta ilia dedisset Tempora sayvitia?. Would to heaven he had given up to trifles like these all the time which he devoted to cruelty. Juvenal—Satires. IV. 150. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ex parvis saype magnarum momenta rerum pendent. Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. LrvY—Annates. XXVII. 9. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke. | author = Lyly | work = Euphues. Arber's reprint. P. 81. (1579) | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = They made light of it. Matthew. XXII. 5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It was possible to live under the regulations established by Sir George [Cockburn], but now we are tortured to death by pin-point wounds. Napoleon according to Lady Malcolm— Diary of St. Helena. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots. Napoleon to the Czar Alexander. At Tilsit, June 22, 1807. 22 | seealso = (See also {{sc|Haye) De multis grandis acervus erit. Out of many things a great heap will be formed. Ovid—Rernedia Amoris. 424. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Peu de chose nous console, parceque peu de chose nous afflige. A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us. Pascal—Pensées. VI. '25. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = At every trifle scorn to take offence; That always shows great pride or little sense. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Criticism. L. 386. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 815 }}