exaggerate

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasions for teasing and quarrelling with you as often as may be; and I shall begin directly, by asking you what made you so unwilling to come to the point at last?

“My dear fellow, you exaggerate.

“My very good friend and excellent neighbor,” replied the count, with a smile, “you really exaggerate my trifling exertions.

“Nevertheless, you must not exaggerate the evil,” said Monte Cristo, “for by endeavoring to avoid one fault you will fall into another.