“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”

—  Jack Kerouac

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), the German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile: http://www.quotes.net/quote/58450
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