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  • There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

    "The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.
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