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More will mean worse.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  On expanding university intake, in Encounter,  Jul.

Not a Penny More,Not a Penny Less.

-Archer,Jeffrey Howard, Lord
  Title of novel.

'Take some more tea,'the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 'I've had nothing yet,'Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.' 'You mean you can't take less,'said the Hatter: 'It's very easy to take more than nothing.'

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.7, 'A Mad Tea-Party'.

Please, sir, I want some more.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^9  Oliver. Oliver Twist, ch.2.

If we domore with less, ourresponsewill be adequateto take care of everybody.

-Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster
  In Playboy.

   Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.

-Parton, Dolly
Attributed.

'Is there no more?' She cries.'All this to love, and rapture's due, Must we not paya debt to pleasure too?'

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of
c.1672  'The Imperfect Enjoyment', l.22^4 (published1680).

'Whoever has opened the window has opened it too wide,'said Miss Brodie.'Six inches isperfectlyadequate. More is vulgar.'

-Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, ch.3.

The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  In the NewYorkTimes, 6 Nov.

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