“People may have too much of a good thing:
Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.”

—  John Wolcot

Subjects for Painters, The Gentleman and his Wife; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 617.

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