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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

sentimentality

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When goose down is sent a thousand miles, the gift may be light but the sentiment is weighty. When goose down is sent a thousand miles, the gift may be light but the sentiment is weighty.

unknown author

presents | gifts | sentiment

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The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknown ... - MORE The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknown in America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

Henry Brooks Adams

women | sex

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Since I am upon this Subject, I must observe that our English Poets have succeeded much better in the Stile, than in the Sentiment... - MORE Since I am upon this Subject, I must observe that our English Poets have succeeded much better in the Stile, than in the Sentiments of their Tragedies. Their Language is very often noble and sonorous, but the sense either very trifling or very common. On the contrary, in the ancient Tragedies, and indeed in those of Corneille and Racine, tho' the Expressions are very great, it is the Thought that bears them up and swells them. For my own part, I prefer a noble Sentiment that is depressed with homely Language, infinitely before a vulgar one that is blown up with all the Sound and Energy of Expression. Whether this Defect in our Tragedies may arise from Want of Genius, Knowledge, or Experience in the Writers, or from their Compliance with the vicious Taste of their Readers, who are better Judges of the Language than of the Sentiments, and consequently relish the one more than the other, I cannot determine.

Joseph Addison

tragedy | criticism | theater

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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I
did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration or a - MORE I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I
did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration or a
metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast
as the rain in the Store closet it would be charming.

Jane Austen

language | style

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A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and openi... - MORE A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and opening on a little lawn, surrounded in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man's heart. The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.

Jane Austen

beauty | attraction | music | musicians

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ide... - MORE Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

Honoré De Balzac

education | children

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, whi... - MORE But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Honoré De Balzac

reason | sentimentality

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I frankly admit that to be a "mistress" is less dishonorable than to be a "wife"; for while the mistress may leave her degradation... - MORE I frankly admit that to be a "mistress" is less dishonorable than to be a "wife"; for while the mistress may leave her degradation if she will, public sentiment and the law hold the "wife" in hers; and while the man is obliged to render compensation (poor I admit for the sacrifice) to his "mistress," he may demand of his "wife" that she perform his drudgery, submit to his blows, and (worse) live the uncomplaining victim of his rapacity.

Francis Barry

wives | husbands | marriage

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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Charles Baudelaire

snobbery

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