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The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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