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From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

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Enough is as good as a feast. – English Proverb

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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. – William Lloyd Garrison

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Spontaneity is good. Routine is good. Conflicting goodness? No. Balance is life. – Terri Guillemets

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