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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Argument
Auson

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Desire
Francis Bacon

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Sorrow
William Blake

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Prudence
Charles Caleb Colton

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Writers and Writing
George Eliot

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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Conceit
Alexander Hamilton

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Plato

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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Behavior
Proverb

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Thoughts and Thinking
Salman Rushdie

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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Judgment and Judges
Lew Wallace

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun