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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
1826-1877, British Economist,
Critic
He's the type
who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing
equipment.
-- Ivern Ball
Exaggeration
is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
-- Hosea Ballou
1771-1852, American
Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''
We exaggerate
misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or
as happy as we say we are.
-- Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist
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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
1894-1974, American Comedian
There are some
people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the
truth without lying.
-- Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist,
Lecturer
It is only a
short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world
to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting
more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is,
and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves
masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to
our will is a shapeless world.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-, American Historian
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 emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is
easy to sniveling and giggles.
-- Joseph Conrad
1857-1924, Polish-born
British Novelist
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