"A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals."
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"You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money."
"Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention."
"Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning."
"A little too much is just enough for me."
"I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much."
"Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle." "Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly. Ian grinned. "Exactly."
"It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up."
"Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]"
"We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more."
"I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined."
"You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing."
"One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything."
"It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods."
"The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always."
"Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much."
"If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that."
"The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change."
"Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life."
"Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food."