Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. - Livy

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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

Livy

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

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