Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous fun

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. – Eliza Cook

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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. – Walt Disney

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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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