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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. – Nicolas Chamfort

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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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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. – Eric Hoffer

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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil Gibran

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