The Difference Between Sentiment And Sentimentality Is Easy To See.

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The difference between sentiment and sentimentality is easy to see. When
you avoid killing somebody's pet on the glazeway, that's sentiment. If you
swerve to avoid the pet and that causes you to kill pedestrians, THAT is
sentimentality.
-- Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune"

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