“ When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ It seems to me that the nursing mother of most false opinions — both public and private — is the excessively high opinion one places on oneself. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ To the excessively fearful, the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ They have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently… ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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