#excess

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! ↗

— Mae West

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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. ↗

— Plato

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Never order food in excess of your body weight. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#body #excess #never #order #weight

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. ↗

— Will Durant

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I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. ↗

— Esther Dyson

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ↗

— Xenophon

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