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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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