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

  • -- Hosea Ballou 马士

夸张是谎言的近亲，几乎同样应该受到谴责。

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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

谎言最成功的时候，莫过于它用真理当鱼饵勾住自己的鱼钩;没有比那些有时是正确的手表更能有效地欺骗佩戴者的了。

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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

在言语中，言语服从于一种独立于第一种关系的关系，这种关系是建立在它们之间联系的基础上的:这就是我所说的组合关系。

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

撒谎者以使谎言看起来像真理一样开始，以使真理本身看起来像谎言一样结束。

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I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

我仍然每天都做主祷文。它涵盖了我们与世界关系的很多方面。

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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

虚假的雄辩是夸大;真正的雄辩是强调。

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I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

毫不夸张地说，我是个少年犯。

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