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Letter "S" » sentimentalist
«Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist»
Author: W. R. Inge
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Experience
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disillusion, disillusioned, proves, sentimentalist, sentimentalists
«A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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desires, emotion, luxury, paying, sentimentalist, sentimentalists
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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counterfeit, description, infest, infested, infesting, sentimentalist, sentimentalists
«The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist»
«There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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