"Know not to revere human things too much."
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"Nothing is too much trouble for Love."
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"The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much."
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"The only thing that you can never have too much of is love."
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"Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up..."
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"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
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"Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever"
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"Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties."
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"Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries."
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"If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in."
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"I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done."
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"We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland."
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"It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing."
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
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"There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living."
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"The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes."
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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it."
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"I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that."
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"Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much."
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"Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much."
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