“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”

—  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

On Dr. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury : as cited in The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1639-1729 , ed. Charles Wells Moulton, H. Malkan (1910) p. 591.

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