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1,520. Exaggeration
"How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his
acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless
escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a
journey into the country without more adventures than befel the
knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted
castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies
are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working
wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them
with subjects of conversation?"
Johnson: Adventurer #50 (April 28, 1753)
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