"A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait." — Edith Hamilton

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• There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings
• It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another. — George H. W. Bush
• All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to… — Milan Kundera
• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin;… — Willa Cather
• We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most… — Jack Kornfield
• Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how… — Swami Vivekananda
• Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain
• In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of… — Eric Temple Bell
• Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can… — Walther Bothe
• It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all,… — Joseph Murray

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