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Quote:Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.[Josh Billings]

Quote:A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.[Alexander Hamilton]

Quote:In charity there is no excess. [Sir Francis Bacon]

Quote:Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. [George F. Will]



Definitions of: excess

Definition: The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.

Definition: An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.

Definition: The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

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