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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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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 who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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