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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments ple

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. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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