#exaggeration

Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid cheapening your judgment. Exaggeration wastes distinction and testifies to the paucity of your understanding and taste. Praise excites anticipation and stimulates desire. Afterwards when value does not measure up to price, disappointment turns against the fraud and takes revenge by cheapening both the appraised and the appraise. For this reason let the prudent go slowly, and err in understatement rather than overstatement. The extraordinary of every kind is always rare, wherefore temper your estimate. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

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Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

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It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with. ↗

— Drew Carey

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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

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The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. ↗

— Robert Plant

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Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus? ↗

— John Clayton

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ↗