• One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

    William Makepeace Thackeray: One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “The English humourists of the eighteenth century: a series of lectures”, p.276