AN ORAL EXAGGERATION
A man with a toothache went to the dentist. “I have a huge cavity!” he said. The doctor, seeing only a moderate amount of decay, assured him, “It will only be a small filling.” “But why does it feel so large?” the patient asked. “Just the natural tendency of the tongue to exaggerate, I guess,” replied the dentist with a twinkle in his eye. We smile, but aren’t many of us equally prone to enlarge things out of all proportion?
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