The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
The minor events of history are valuable, although not always showy and picturesque.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.
