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disproportionate to

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. Leo Tolstoy

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves. Gerry Spence

Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold, and to swell themselves with riches in a very brief time and thus rise to a high estate disproportionate to their merits. Bartolomé de las Casas

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes. John Wyndham

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. Carol Vorderman

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle. H. Lee Scott, Jr.

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