 | Friedrich Gerstäcker - 1859 - 192 стор.
...friends — in the way of insisting on payment of the same bill twice over, on the principle, probably, that it was impossible to have too much of a good thing; and similar little eccentricities of conduct, which the viragos in question, with culpable disregard... | |
 | Albert James Bernays - 1866 - 428 стор.
...above 1 70°. The managers, having had no experience of these baths abroad, appear to have imagined that it was impossible to have too much of a good thing. But, in truth, by overshooting the mark, they defeated their own object. However it may be explained,... | |
 | H. W. Tilman - 2004 - 938 стор.
...the rains the river would become unfordable. D.'s greed for claims was still unsatisfied. He argued that it was impossible to have too much of a good thing. I disagreed, partly on account of the cost of registration (£1 per claim), but also, and more particularly,... | |
 | Irving P. Fox - 1920 - 932 стор.
...left with one child. It was a life thrown away under the idea that water was the only good drink, and that it was impossible to have too much of a good thing. I find one bottle of whiskey per week quite a nice little nightcap — with the odd nips I Imbibe during... | |
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One possibility is that a reviewer had commented elsewhere in the periodical that it was impossible to have too much of a good thing. 