"When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, all is defeated, except wealth and power."
— Enthusiasm

January 1, 1970

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Germaine de Staël, Corinne; or Italy (1807), translated by Isabel Hill (London: Richard Bentley, 1850), Book IV, ch. III, p. 55