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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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Education commences at the mothers knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou

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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. – Eric Hoffer

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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. – French Proverb

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

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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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