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 | "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the
demand." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the
opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in
government." | |
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Plato
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| "Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from
acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "I"m the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a
line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ?I?d rather be
strongly wrong than weakly right.?" | |
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Tallulah Bankhead
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| "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." | |
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William Blake
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| "The superfluous, a very necessary thing." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Therefore, to be possess"d with double pomp, To guard a title that
was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a
perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the
rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to
garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "They never taste who always drink; They always talk, who never
think." | |
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Matthew Prior
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| "To go beyond is as bad as to fall short." | |
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Proverb
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| "To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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