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by Ralph Waldo Emerson    ( comments )

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers more

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

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by Thomas Huxley    ( comments )

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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

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by Oscar Wilde    ( comments )

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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by Thomas Carlyle    ( comments )

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

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by Graham Greene    ( comments )

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Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

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by Alphonse De Lamartine    ( comments )

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

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by James Russell Lowell    ( comments )

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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

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by W. Somerset Maugham    ( comments )

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

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by Graham Greene    ( comments )

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

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by Abraham Lincoln    ( comments )

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He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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