"Sentiment, by the by, is one of those ill-used words which, from being often misemployed, require a definition when properly applied. Sentiment is the poetry of feeling. Feeling weeps over the grave of the beloved ā sentiment weeps, and plants the early flower and the green tree, to weep too."
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol.II, Chapter 12
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