Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? – William Shakespeare, As You Like It [IV, 1, Rosalind]

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. – William Morris, lecture, 1880

There is hardly a place where, in the course of a year, some things are not purchased and never used, and where spring cleaning does not unearth them. Spring is the time when the good housewife puts all doubtful things into the trash barrel. – E.F. White, “Spring Soda Fountain Thoughts,” 1908 [a little altered —t&#94