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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is infested...
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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.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar International, 1991.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.