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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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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. – Nicolas Chamfort

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To exaggerate is to weaken. – Jean François de La Harpe, Melanie, 1770

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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? – Alexander Pope

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There is no one who does not exaggerate! – 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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