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title: "17 Exaggeration is Quotes by 12 authors"
description: "Browse 17 Exaggeration is quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Exaggeration is sayings and thoughts."
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> [Exaggeration is a branch of lying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/exaggeration-is-a-branch-of-lying/)

[Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/)

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> [There is no one who does not exaggerate!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-no-one-who-does-not-exaggerate/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-human-to-exaggerate-the-merits-of-the-dead/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-mertz/exaggeration-is-the-cheapest-form-of-humor/)

[Barbara Mertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-mertz/)

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> [To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/to-a-small-man-every-greater-is-an-exaggeration/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-j-boorstin/it-is-only-a-short-step-from-exaggerating-what-we-can-find-in-the/)

[Daniel J. Boorstin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-j-boorstin/)

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> [There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/there-s-no-disappointment-in-memory-and-one-s-exaggerations-are/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive… We must not resort to the flame where only light is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/it-is-the-essence-of-truth-that-it-is-never-excessive-we-must-not/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/exaggeration-is-a-prodigality-of-the-judgment-which-shows-the/)

[Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/)

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> [There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-billings/there-are-people-so-addicted-to-exaggeration-that-they-actually-can-t/)

[Josh Billings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-billings/)

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> [Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-vice-is-only-an-exaggeration-of-a-necessary-and-virtuous/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hoffer/thought-is-a-process-of-exaggeration-the-refusal-to-exaggerate-is-not/)

[Eric Hoffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hoffer/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/alcohol-is-perfectly-consistent-in-its-effects-upon-man-drunkenness/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ortega-y-gasset/by-speaking-by-thinking-we-undertake-to-clarify-things-and-that/)

[Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ortega-y-gasset/)

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> [It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-j-boorstin/it-is-only-a-short-step-from-exaggerating-what-we-can-find-in-the-2/)

[Daniel J. Boorstin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-j-boorstin/)

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> [It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/it-is-the-essence-of-truth-that-it-is-never-excessive-why-should-it/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/exaggeration-is-in-the-course-of-things-nature-sends-no-creature-no/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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