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Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.


Francis Bacon

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CHARLIE MUNGER I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.
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JOHN DRYDEN I have too much money invested in sweaters.
BOB HOPE Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.
WILLIAM HENRY The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
LAO TZU [Schwarzenegger wants power] without checks and balances, ... I think that's too much power.
FABIAN NUNEZ I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
NAOMIE HARRIS I drink too much coffee.
JULIANNA MARGULIES Trust not too much to appearances.
VIRGIL Don't take too much advice.
BEN SILBERMANN I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.
JANINE TURNER There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
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V. S. NAIPAUL I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J MASCIS You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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CALVIN COOLIDGE I'm always hairy. I swear too much.
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BON SCOTT Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
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EDNA FERBER Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little
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PROVERB They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
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