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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 read 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.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
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.
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in read more
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
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.
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
