"Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself."
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"Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed."
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"There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty."
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"The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
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"In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite."
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"We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
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"Everyone became brave from excess of terror."
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"Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!"
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"Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable."
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"All is wholesome in the absence of excess."
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"Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?"
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"Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough."
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"I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things."
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"Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . ."
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"The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity."
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"Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison."
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"That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them."
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"Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well."
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"The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language."
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