Quote by Tryon Edwards
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to ma

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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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tryon Edwards

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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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We always weaken everything we exaggerate. – Fr餩ric-C鳡r La Harpe

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Some folks never exaggerate — they just remember big. – Author Unknown

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

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I never exaggerate. I just remember big. – Chi Chi Rodriguez

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