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“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“But this is only the sentimental side of the matter; for grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“He saw her now only as a spy. Their love and his grief were relegated to the boxroom of his mind. Later, perhaps they would be dragged out, dispassionately examined, and then bitterly thrust back with other sentimental baggage he would rather forget.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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Ian Fleming (2)
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