Quotes: exaggeration
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
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Envy pierces more in the restriction of praises than in the exaggeration of its criticisms.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
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It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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Men of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
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Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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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.
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