Famous quotes containing the words excess and/or benefit:
“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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