"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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"What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff."
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"What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic."
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"The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!"
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"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise."
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"My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel."
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"Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die."
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"I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!"
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"I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature."
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"Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic."
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"Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success."
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"A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman."
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"I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible."
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"I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just be a wreck!"
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