sentimental fool

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And Bingley emerges as a sentimental fool, given to crying fits: The “gush from his eyes would surely have been sufficient to bathe a medium-sized dog: a corgi or, perhaps, a Border collie.”

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2016

Was he really that much of a sentimental fool?

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Now you see what a sentimental fool a woman can be.

From An Alabaster Box by Mulford, Stockton

He had wandered in the jungle and laughed aloud at himself for a sentimental fool.

From The Plunderer by Oyen, Henry

He'd just let them—by which he vaguely meant the world, Tasajara, and possibly his own conscience—see that he wasn't a sentimental fool, and he'd freeze on to that paper and that property!

From A First Family of Tasajara by Harte, Bret