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Letter "E" » exaggeration
«There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.»
«The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.»
Author: Leon Trotsky
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exaggeration, Niagara, poured, pour down, slander, Slanders, sovereign, The Accused, the revolution, without consideration
«Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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all the way, exaggeration, go together, mystic, mysticism, ridicule
«Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.»
«Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Love
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difference, exaggeration, exaggerations, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, one-person
«The report of my death was an exaggeration After reading his own obituary, June 2 1897»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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exaggeration, exaggerations, June, obituaries, obituary, report
«Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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abnormally, exaggeration, humorous, poetic
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