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W Somerset Maugham
: I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Nothing in excess.
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Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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