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

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

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. – Honore de Balzac

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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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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. – Proverb

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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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