“No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: The Progress of Error (1782), Line 470.
“A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.”
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
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