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Showing posts with label excess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excess. Show all posts

Sunday, March 12, 2023

Post #3167

These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt, and hesitation.
—The Talmud

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Sunday, August 01, 2021

Post #3083

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
―Plato

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Monday, September 09, 2019

Post #2911

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
—William Shakespeare


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Friday, September 06, 2019

Post #2910

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Thursday, September 05, 2019

Post #2909

The ass bears the load, but not the overload
—Miguel de Cervantes

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Monday, May 14, 2018

Post #2576

Excess always carries its own retribution.
—Ouida

Monday, February 20, 2017

Post #2276

If a man get a fever, or a pain in the head with overdrinking, we are subject to curse the wine, when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess.
—Erasmus

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Post #1353

The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
—Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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