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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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,… — John Cheever
- Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors? — Lierre Keith
- The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we… — Herman Wouk
- The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw
- Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists. — Curt Siodmak