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"In charity there is no excess." »Francis Bacon
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"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide." »Cicero
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"The best things carried to excess are wrong." »Charles Churchill
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"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." »Voltaire
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." »Oscar Wilde
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"When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness." »Euripides
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." »Josh Billings
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"Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." »Voltaire
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"The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone." »Michelangelo
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"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness." »Percy Wynham Lewis
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"excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort." »Charles Dickens
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"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance." »John Keats
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"In all the world there is no vice Less prone t?excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing: Nature?s content with little, that with nothing." »Butler
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"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad." »William Penn
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"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea." »Richard Hofstadter
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"In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath." »Kahlil Gibran
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