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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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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.


John McCarthy


#knowledge #marxism #misspent #sign #youth

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.


James McGreevey


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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.


Robert Morgan


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But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.


Robert Mueller


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I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.


Heidi Murkoff


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The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.


Giorgio Napolitano


#country #current #excessively #forms #instead

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.


John Henry Newman


#defect #evil #excess #only #own

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.


Robert M. Parker, Jr.


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One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.


James Payn


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