Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.2580, Delphi Classics
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