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Moderation is a fatal thing...Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde

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Moderation is a fatal thing...Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance · 1893
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Moderation vs. excessModerationExcess
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Time
1893
Person
Oscar Wilde
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Wilde, Oscar. "A Woman of No Importance." The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.
Original citation
Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 1893, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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