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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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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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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

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

— John McCarthy

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For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

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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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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. ↗

— William James

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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. ↗

— Benjamin Graham

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Excessive fear is always powerless. ↗

— Aeschylus

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