Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentanc…

Ambrose Bierce
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged, p.68, Courier Corporation
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged, p.68, Courier Corporation

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