Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

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• Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Knowledge
  • Judgment
  • Taste