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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? - Alexander Pope

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? – Alexander Pope

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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
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If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. – The Talmud

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Exaggeration

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. – Willa Sibert Cather

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Exaggeration

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. – Hosea Ballou

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One learns to itch where one can scratch. – Ernest Bramah

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If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. – Author unknown

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