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

He must see Carmen and resolved that she should find him proof against her wiles; he was not going to be a sentimental fool again.

From Carmen's Messenger by Bindloss, Harold

No, I don't think you are a sentimental fool.

From Wolf Breed by Gregory, Jackson

Emilia knew that you would not disturb the house—" "I was a sentimental fool.

From The Secret Passage by Hume, Fergus