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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.
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.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
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.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
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.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
