"In charity there is no excess."
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"There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation."
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"We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess."
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"Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond."
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"Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly."
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