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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – 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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Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. – Eliza Cook

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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hes the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment. – Ivern Ball

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