"Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.
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“The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.”
“If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.”
“You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”
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“Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.”
“The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.”
“The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.”