#excess

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. ↗

— George Will

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service. ↗

— Sean Hannity

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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

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I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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There is moderation even in excess. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed. ↗

— Barney Frank

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