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• The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. — Oscar Wilde
• Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood
• The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and… — Robert Penn Warren
• The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. — Thomas Carlyle
• The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — William Ralph Inge
• The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges. — Lillie Langtry
• A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer… — Oswald Chambers
• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse… — Brigid Brophy
• Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. — Jack Butler Yeats

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