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excess Quotes

Eight of the best book quotes about excess
01
So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
02
“The charitable say in effect, ‘I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.’ Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.”
03
“Oh sure, they say they’re busy. They say that they didn’t have even a moment in their insanely busy day to pick up the phone.”
04
“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.”
05
“There’s nothing but the feed telling you, This is the music you heard. This is the music you missed. This is what is new. Listen.”
06
“The mall was really busy, there were a lot of crowds there. They were buying all this stuff, like the inflatable houses for their kids, and the dog massagers, and the tooth extensions that people were wearing, the white ones which you slid over your real teeth and they made your mouth just like one big single tooth going all the way across.”
07
“Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.”
08
“There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.”
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