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    Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!

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    A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

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    A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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    Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

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    Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure.

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    A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

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    African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

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    A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

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    All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

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    All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

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    All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

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    Allow not nature more than nature needs.

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    An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

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    An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

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    Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

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    Anything in excess is a poison.

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    Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

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    As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

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    An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

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    An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

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    Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

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    A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

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    A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

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    As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset stripping capitalism: set up businesses, let them fail, avoid paying suppliers, use bankruptcy laws to avoid taxes for decades, then set up another business somewhere else. It is this model that is the cause of many problems we see today.

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    A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

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    Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

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    Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

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    But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

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    Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

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    Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

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    C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

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    Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

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    Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!

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    Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

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    Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

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    Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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    Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

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    Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

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    Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.

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    For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

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    Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

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    Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

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    Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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    Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

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    Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

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    Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

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    Excess always carries its own retribution.

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    Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

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    Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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    Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.