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Quote by Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamab

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

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The oppression of any people for opinions sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou

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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no one who does not exaggerate! – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. – William Alger

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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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