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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they d

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world. – Nicolas Chamfort

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

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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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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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