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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
Woodrow Wilson
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Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
Ellen Glasgow
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Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Jane Jacobs
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. Salinger
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The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.
Mason Cooley
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There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.
James Purdy
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Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Marc Webb
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In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.
Anne Frank
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
Margaret Mead