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"ref": "c. 1910, Theodore Roosevelt, Productive Scholarship",
"text": "Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole, for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond."
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"ref": "1987, Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal, p. 58.",
"text": "The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. ..People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion."
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"ref": "1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, 出自 Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback版, Durham: Duke University Press, 出版於 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC，第 17 頁:",
"text": "In these circumstances, hyperbole is called for, the rhetorical figure that raises its objects up, excessively, way above their actual merit : it is not to deceive by exaggeration that one overshoots the mark, but to allow the true value, the truth of what is insufficiently valued, to appear."
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"ref": "2001, Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe",
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