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Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. – Walter Bagehot

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Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift

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