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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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«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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