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"Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony." »The Hitopadesa
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"There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive." »Cornelius Tacitus
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"excessive literary production is a social offense." »George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
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"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune." »Lewis Lew Wallace
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"There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities." »Paxton Blair
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"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune." »Plato
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"Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find." »Pindar
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"Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive." »Sa?di
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"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." »Alexander Hamilton
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"We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living." »Randolph Bourne
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"Men say that everyone is naturally a lover of himself, and that it is right that it should be so. This is a mistake; for in fact the cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved, so that he passes a wrong judgment upon what is just, good, and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honour what belongs to himself, in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another." »Plato
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