"Writing means revealing oneself to excess."
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"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess"
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"Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition."
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"A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer."
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"The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance."
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"A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction."
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"For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended."
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"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"
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"It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are valued partly like bonds, based on roughly rational projections of use value in producing future cash. But they are also valued partly like Rembrandt paintings, purchased mostly because their prices have gone up, so far."
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"As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."
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"Excess weakens the spirits."
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"The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real."
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess."
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"What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!"
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"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."
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"The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."
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"Excess and deficiency are equally at fault."
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"Allow not nature more than nature needs."
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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."
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