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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ↗

— Charles Dickens

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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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Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. ↗

— Tim Vine

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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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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. ↗

— George Will

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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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