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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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. – Tryon Edwards

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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both. – Tryon Edwards

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I dont want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. – Jack Benny

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

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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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Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes. – Author Unknown

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