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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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EXAGGERATION

If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.
- "O'Shah," Europe and Elsewhere

Illustration from LIFE magazine, March 2, 1899

For the "...reports of my death" quote see Death

 

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