L. Frank Baum
Author
"A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others."
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Sentimental
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Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."
Jean Cocteau
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."
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"It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam."
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"Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists."
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"I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental."
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"Sentimentality is unearned emotion."
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"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
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"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."
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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
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"The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea."
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"Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality."
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"The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life."
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"Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental."
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"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."
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"Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt."
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"In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time."
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"I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'"
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"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
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"The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning."
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"A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders."
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