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All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. ↗

— James Young Simpson

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. ↗

— Terence

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You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. ↗

— Terence

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You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it. ↗

— Terence

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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

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America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. ↗

— John Piper

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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. ↗

— Marty Meehan

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Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

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People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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