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Quotations on Sentiment

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by Oscar Wilde
(October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900)

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

by Abraham Lincoln
(February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865)

He who molds the public sentiment makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

by Confucius
(551 BC - 479 BC)

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 ...

by William Somerset Maugham
(January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965)

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882)

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 ...

by Thomas Carlyle
(December 4, 1795 - February 4, 1881)

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.



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