"In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages."
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"The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so."
"I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion."
"Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk."
"When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings."
"He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time."
"In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects."
"There may be guilt when there is too much virtue."
"For too much rest becomes a pain."
"I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation."
"When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid."
"I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself."
"Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another."
"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."
"Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun."
"I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world."
"Too much information is rather deadening."
"One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth."
"Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."
"We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty."