The Devil's Dictionary: Enthusiasm

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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ENTHUSIASM

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A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off - to Missolonghi.

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