“ Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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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- Copy
- 394
“ Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
- 205
“ By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things. That forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
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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. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ The signing of a major treaty in 2001 and settling of border issues laid a solid foundation for long-term historic prospects, and that's not an overstatement. ”
- Vladimir Putin- Copy
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“ Eschew the monumental. Shun the epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ I don't 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- Copy
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“ He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment. ”
- Ivern Ball- Copy
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“ Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose — as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent e. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything? except his own mistakes. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
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“ We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination. down our earth to rake. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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