• 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
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
  

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1. sentimentalists
2. description
3. talkers
4. mistake
5. saying
6. having

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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. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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