"The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist."

Carlyle, Thomas · Sentiment · 0 fans >>
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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 who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having."

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

Greene, Graham · Sentiment · 1 fans >>
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"The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental."

Huxley, Thomas H. · Sentiment · 0 fans >>
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"Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination."

Lamartine, Alphonse De · Sentiment · 0 fans >>
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"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make."

Lincoln, Abraham · Sentiment · 1 fans >>
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"Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy."

Lowell, James Russell · Sentiment · 0 fans >>
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"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."

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

Wilde, Oscar · Sentiment · 1 fans >>
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