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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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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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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. – Bob Edwards

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To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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Exaggeration

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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My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything. – Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle, 1831 (The Rev. Dr. Folliott)

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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. – William Manchester

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Our company is built on people – those who work for us, and those we do business with. – Harvey S. Firestone

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