Well . . . sometimes you can, but it's a rare circumstance.
A 12 volt starter motor is designed to work properly at 9-10 volts. Some cars/trucks with light-duty direct-drive starters can be made to have problems when greatly over-batteried and cranking voltage gets up near 12 volts. But, that's pretty hard to do.
One example is my 64 SS Chevelle with a 327. Due to high compression pistons, over-advanced timing specs with a hot cam etc. it was a hard cranker at times. Since I had many big batteries around, I got the bright idea to install two huge tractor batteries in the trunk with 2/0 cable running up front. Cranking voltage jumped from 9.5 up to 11 volts. It made a huge difference in cranking speed. But - no matter what I did, I could not get the Delco starter drives from breaking. Finally went back to one battery and no more failures. Eventualy, I installed a gear-drive starter.
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