exaggeration quotes

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One person tells an idle story; ten thousand repeat it as truth.
Cackling hens do not lay eggs.
Those who know much talk little; those who know little talk much.
The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wil ...
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting i ...
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting m ...
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming ...
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his pro ...
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
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