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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 and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Victor Hugo
Light, Exaggeration Is, Flames

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exaggeration Is, Doe, Exaggeration
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Exaggeration Is, Generosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exaggeration Is, Vices, Function
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Mark Twain
Exaggeration Is, Merit, Humans
Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.49, Courier Corporation

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Exaggeration Is, Small Man
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

George Eliot
Memories, Disappointment, Exaggeration Is
George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

Daniel J. Boorstin
Exaggeration Is, World, Steps
Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Aries Spears
Everyday Things, Exaggeration Is, Average

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Oscar Wilde
Real, Exaggeration Is, Expression
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

J. D. Salinger
Wall, Book, Exaggeration Is

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Barbara Mertz
Humor, Exaggeration Is, Form

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