#excess

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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Pride and excess bring disaster for man. ↗

— Xun Zi

#disaster #excess #man #pride

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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To touch a sore is to renew one's grief. ↗

— Terence

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Too much liberty corrupts us all. ↗

— Terence

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. ↗

— Terence

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Where there's life, there's hope. ↗

— Terence

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We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product. ↗

— Bing Crosby

#best #came #chance #could #dub

At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness. ↗

— Cristina Nehring

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