#exaggerate

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. ↗

— Bob Edwards

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My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated. ↗

— Keith Carradine

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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates. ↗

— Eric Cantor

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts. ↗

— Robert Irvine

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