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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.
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.
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.
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-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
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.
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.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
